About

phishunt.io

phishunt.io is a project with the goal of making Internet a little bit safer. We look for suspicious websites and expose them ir order they can be taken down.

Some of the companies that are affected are listed below:

Tech companies
- Amazon, Apple, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix, Paypal, Twitter
Banks
- Banco Santander, Bank of America, Barclays, BBVA, Wellsfargo

Therefore, here you are going to find phishing scams that try to deceive users and customers of these companies. And more yet to come..

FAQ

What is phishing?
- Phishing is a technique used by cybercriminals to steal credentials and personal information from users. Despite being one of the oldest attack vectors, it remains one of the most effective ones nowadays due to the fact that it is normally used together with social engineering techniques.
What is phishunt.io?
- A website that shows possible phishing and scams that target the companies listed above.
How does it work?
- It automatically searches suspicious domains on several sources and also checks if it is categorized as malicious in urlscan.io, Google Safe Browsing, PhishTank or OpenPhish.
Who is behind phishunt.io?
- I'm Daniel López. I have built phishunt from scratch in my spare time as a personal research project.
There are sites that are not phishing nor scam. Why are you showing them?
- Some of the results may not be malicious (i.e. there are false positives). We are trying to reduce them to the minimum.

Similar services

This website has been inspired strongly by some other sites, for example:

urlscan.io - a service to scan and analyse websites.
URLhaus - a project from abuse.ch with the goal of sharing malicious URLs that are being used for malware distribution.
phishtank.com - phishing feed operated by OpenDNS.
openphish.com - another phishing feed.

phishunt.io on media

derechodelared.com - phishunt.io, cazando phishings. (spanish)
blogs.protegerse.com - Amazon Prime Day. Cuidado con el phishing que se aprovecha de este evento. (spanish)

If you think this service can help your company or you have any suggestion, feel free to contact us.