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The Risks of Relying on VirusTotal for Domain Threat Intelligence
TL;DR – By the end of this post you will have an understanding of: how VirusTotal determines the risk of a URL, why you shouldn’t rely solely on VirusTotal for threat intelligence, where VirusTotal gets their data, how to get the most recent threat...
How to check if a .zip domain is malicious – and how did we end up here?
Cybersecurity opinion is unanimous, for once It’s rare, but every so often, the cybersecurity community locks arms and stands in solidarity against a common threat. This is usually in response to some large-scale compromise such as the recent events involving...
BrightCloud URL/IP Lookup vs. alphaMountain threatYeti
From time to time we like to test different IP reputation and web classification solutions, and what better way than by taking the most recent SMS spam message from your mobile phone (you know you’ve gotten one recently) and putting the URL into different solutions to...
Reflections on our first RSA Conference
As a seed stage startup, events are hard. Giant conventions are even harder. But we didn’t let that deter us from mustering half of our small-but-mighty team to make the pilgrimage to San Francisco for the 2023 RSA Conference where we set up camp for two and a half...
alphaMountain @ RSA Conference 2023
We have a big week coming up with the RSA Conference. After launching threatYeti at the end of Q1, we’ve seen an exciting number of signups and inquiries about our domain and IP threat intelligence products. We are really encouraged by the enthusiasm we’re seeing for...
Introducing: threatYeti
Level up your hunting and research with real-time threat intelligence for any host on the internet. The alphaMountain team is excited to announce the release of threatYeti, our new platform for real-time domain intelligence. Now in public beta, threatYeti is built on...