Phishing is the act of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by pretending to be a trustworthy entity in electronic communication. For example, you could receive an e-mail (apparently from PayPal) that asks you for your password, or asks you to log in to your account to modify some settings through a malicious URL provided in the e-mail, which redirects to a hacker website (looking like the original site) so that they can steal your credentials. Phish Blocker protects against these fraud e-mails.
Untangle Phish Blocker leverages Google's Safe Browsing API, which helps you to protect yourself from dangerous websites. Google maintains a list of dangerous websites; in addition to that, Google analyzes website content and initiates warnings if the website seems dangerous. If the e-mail message contains a URL of one of these dangerous websites, it will be considered a phishing...