NordVPN launches Link Checker to protect users from malicious websites
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
LONDON, Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NordVPN, a leading cybersecurity company, launches its new experimental product from the NordLabs platform. Link Checker is a manual URL-checking tool that enables users to examine a website's safety before visiting by scanning it for different types of malware and getting a notification about whether it is fake or ridden with phishing scams.
Key Points:
- Link Checker is a manual URL-checking tool that enables users to examine a website's safety before visiting by scanning it for different types of malware and getting a notification about whether it is fake or ridden with phishing scams.
- Link Checker is a response to the growing scale and intricacy of phishing attempts online," says Vykintas Maknickas, head of product strategy at NordVPN.
- Designed as an everyday tool to help users avoid such scenarios, Link Checker scans the domains of the websites the user wants to visit and compares them against a list of websites known to contain scams or malware.
- To collect information about malicious websites, Link Checker employs NordVPN's own machine learning model, which was created to recognize zero-day phishing patterns planted within websites.