July 2, 2024, 3:30 p.m. | Forrest Kasler

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PHISHING SCHOOL


Bypassing Link Crawlers


You’ve just convinced a target user to click your link. In doing so, you have achieved the critical step in social engineering:


Convincing someone to let you in the door!


Now, we just have a few more technical controls that might get in the way of us reeling in our catch. The first of which is link crawlers.


What’s a Link Crawler?


Link crawlers, or “protected links” are one of the most annoying …

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