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Utility for detecting phishing domains targeting Web3 users

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2018-04-01 · latest 2022-03-23

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  1. lol, a lot of "metaXXXX" "fixes" in the PRs too... https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/pulls
    comment by detaro · 2022-03-23 · in Show HN: We made an open-source personalization engine
  2. According to the code on https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/blob/45ea5cf... , looks like that everything within Levenstein distance of 3 from whitelisted hosts (like "metamask.*") is blocked. Metarank and Metamask have the…
    comment by shutty · 2022-03-23 · in Show HN: We made an open-source personalization engine
  3. …to "auctus", which is on their known good list of domains they're checking for impersonations of. https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/blob/master/...
    comment by iudqnolq · 2021-03-07 · in Cactus Comments: Federated web comments based on Matrix protocol
  4. It seems to be a false positive in the phishing detector: https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/issues/4749
    comment by michaelsbradley · 2021-03-07 · in Cactus Comments: Federated web comments based on Matrix protocol
  5. Thanks for pointing this out. No idea, why it appeared on the list. There's already a github issue https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/issues/3835
    comment by 21stio · 2020-05-16 · in Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News
  6. …phishing target." It also seems like someone has already filed an issue on their Github ( https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/issues/3762 ) a month ago.
    comment by jneplokh · 2020-04-22 · in Show HN: Chrome extension to blur personal data before screen capture
  7. Hm, I get this too because I have MetaMask. It uses this library: https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect Running the detector on 'sanctus.io' gives a fuzzy match against the whitelisted domain 'auctus.org'. That's pretty odd, and…
    comment by heynk · 2018-04-29 · in “Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy”
  8. …algorithm. So it could be a false positive. After a quick check I didn't find Auditus on there: https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/blob/master/...
    comment by aik · 2018-04-01 · in Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion