New Update Osprey Browser Protection discussion and updates

Vitali Ortzi

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The Osprey extension is excellent, I tested it again yesterday and it blocked everything up to URL redirects, and also .js files within the site, as it was an obscure website it was to be expected. It was kind of funny at first because I couldn't browse that page due to the constant blocks and ended up closing the page. I'm using NextDNS DNS and it will be difficult if not impossible to fall for a phishing scam because all top-level domains (TLDs) and newly registered domains (NRDs) less than 30 days old are blocked by default. By the way, the most important thing I wanted to tell MT members right now is about malware and Trojans for Linux. If you use Linux, pay close attention to what I'm about to say. Don't worry, I have Linux too. Yesterday on the website that provides samples, with a huge list of hundreds of recent malware and Trojans, they were all aimed at Linux. I had to go back 3 pages to find malware for windows, because the first three pages were malware URLs if mainly trojans targeting Linux. I've never seen so much malware for linux as I did yesterday. Be vigilant when using your linux, only install your apps from the store and only install what is necessary for what you use and keep your distro up to date, although malware and trojans target Linux servers, you never know, you could end up being infected. Since most Linux users don't use AV on this platform, you can't be too careful. That's what I had to. (y) Be safe, but not paranoid, as our friend says @oldschool ;)
Unix like systems especially Linux by far is getting targeted more but the main threat today is pishing , social engineering as that way threat actors get access to systems and osprey is the best protection you have after training against such threats but if you had truly zero day pishing sites then some won't be blocked by anything including osprey
 
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