The most recent update to the Google Android app has startled users as they notice the mysterious "search.app" links being generated when sharing content and links from the Google app externally.
A threat actor that security researchers call Prolific Puma has been providing link shortening services to cybercriminals for at least four years while keeping a sufficiently low profile to operate undetected.
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You may be familiar with some of the shortest internet domains used by major companies, such as m.me and fb.me from Facebook (Meta) and Twitter's t.co URL shortener. But, it's possible for live domain names to be even shorter than these choices—and contain no dots.
Security researchers are seeing an uptick in the use of reverse tunnel services along with URL shorteners for large-scale phishing campaigns, making the malicious activity more difficult to stop.