Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that threat actors are taking advantage of recent IT outage via phishing scams and other malicious activitySANTA CLARA, Calif., July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bolster , a leader in multi-channel phishing protection, today announced that its free CheckPhish site , one of the most popular phishing and scam detection sites on the internet, has detected a spike in malicious activities, with more than 40 phishing and phony lookalike domains created in the first 24 hours following the CrowdStrike software incident.CheckPhish is a free, real-time URL scanner that uses an array of machine learning algorithms to determine if a site is malicious or not. Since its inception in 2018, it has scanned more than 6.5 billion URLs. With CheckPhish, you can scan suspicious URLs and monitor for typosquats and lookalikes variants of a domain."We have been watching the reality behind the CISA's warning play out in real-time. In the early hours of July 19, scammers began trying to lure victims into various scams. Within the first 24 hours, more than 40 typosquat domains were targeting CrowdStrike users and had been added to the CheckPhish site," said Abhilash Garimella, vice president of Research at Bolster. "A typosquat, or lookalike domain, resembles a legitimate domain but with variations, such as common misspellings or additional characters

In the past year, Bolster has introduced eight cutting-edge LLM technology-based transformers, capable of detecting and eliminating phishing threats before they can even reach an email.