SlashNext challenges common URL obfuscation techniques with Project Phantom

SlashNext, the leader in next-gen AI cloud email and communications security, is launching Project Phantom, the Zero-Trust Steal Mode Browsers capable of seeing through obfuscation techniques employed by threat actors. With the aim of delivering advanced protection against phishing and malware, Project Phantom uncovers the myriad threats hiding behind the guise of common cybersecurity practices.

Everyone, at some point or another, has encountered popular, free cybersecurity tools—such as CAPTCHA or Cloudflare’s Turnstile Services—which are designed with the intention to offer some modicum of online security. Yet, CAPTCHA and similar solutions have become tools that unknowingly help threat actors, often exploited as obfuscation techniques to prevent security services from accessing and analyzing phishing sites, according to SlashNext.

Project Phantom was developed in response to this looming, unintended threat, offering Zero-Trust Steal Mode Browsers that bypass the techniques used to capitalize on CAPTCHA technology. Detonating overing 200 million URLs per day, uncovering advanced threats hosted on trusted services such as SharePoint, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe.

“Over 60% of malicious URLs delivered via email are protected by CAPTCHA, which is why we developed this unique technology to detect these threats before they compromise users,” said Patrick Harr, CEO, SlashNext. “Our patented Zero-Trust Stealth Mode Browsers behave exactly like a human user, interacting with CAPTCHAs to access phishing and other malicious content hidden behind these barriers for AI analysis. As a result, we uniquely detect and block these threats that others routinely miss.”

Project Phantom leverages SlashNext’s Proactive AI to detect over 800,000 new URL threats daily, identifying 99.99% of URL-based threats with near-zero false positives, according to the company. This empowers a critical 48-hour detection advantage when compared to conventional methods of online threat detection.

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