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We’ve spent years working with security teams that rely on VirusTotal every day. We understand why it became foundational: it made URL, domain, IP, and file analysis accessible in a single workflow, and it gave analysts a fast way to sanity-check suspicious...

IP reputation used to be something analysts checked manually when an alert looked suspicious. Today, it’s a decision engine, quietly influencing what gets blocked, escalated, or ignored across the security stack. At its core, IP reputation answers a simple question:...

Phishing has always been about deception, but today, it’s not just about a fake email. It’s about obfuscation and infrastructure. Attackers now build entire ecosystems of redirectors, cloud storage, and short-lived domains to host credential-stealing pages. The result...

Phishing detection is a fast-moving game of cat and mouse. We recently received a message from the popular QuickBooks accounting software which turned out it was a phishing scam. Let's take a deep technical dive into how threat actors are leveraging legitimate...

  Introduction For nearly two decades, security teams have relied on VirusTotal as a go-to tool for checking files, URLs, domains, and IPs against a massive crowdsourced database of threat verdicts. But as of 2025, VirusTotal is reaching its end of life as a...

When a post promising a Trader Joe’s gift basket for just $12 began circulating on Facebook, it didn’t take long for thousands of people to click, share, and wonder if the deal was too good to be true. According to a recent Snopes investigation, it was exactly that: a...