Stop Phishing Attacks with Prosopo

What is Phishing?

Phishing is a type of cyberattack where attackers impersonate legitimate organizations, services, or individuals to trick users into revealing sensitive information. Common targets include login credentials, payment details, personal identification information, and confidential business data.

Attackers often create fake websites, emails, or forms that mimic real services. Users are tricked into entering information, which is then harvested for malicious purposes, including identity theft, financial fraud, and unauthorized account access.

How Bots Facilitate Phishing Attacks

Bots play a critical role in scaling phishing attacks:

• Automated Distribution: Bots can send phishing emails or messages to thousands or millions of recipients within minutes.
• Credential Harvesting: Automated scripts can capture login details submitted to fake forms and test them against multiple platforms.
• Phishing Kit Deployment: Bots assist in setting up and testing phishing kits, ensuring that fake pages function correctly and evade detection.
• Evading Detection: Sophisticated bots can mimic human interactions, making phishing campaigns harder to detect for traditional security systems.

By automating these processes, attackers can execute phishing campaigns at scale, greatly increasing their effectiveness and potential damage.

How Prosopo Helps Stop Phishing Kits

Phishing is human-targeted, but the scaling infrastructure behind every phishing campaign is automated — bulk-signups, kit deployment, harvested-credential testing. Prosopo disrupts those automation layers:

• Network-wide behavioural modelling. Mouse, scroll, typing and device signals are continuously modelled across our platform. Toolkits used to deploy phishing kits or replay stolen credentials get recognised the moment they appear.
• Residential proxy and real-device farm detection. Phishing operators route through residential IPs and real-device farms to look legitimate. Prosopo's risk scoring labels those networks even when the IP itself looks clean.
• Spam Filter on signup endpoints. Disposable inboxes and abusive networks used to bulk-create attacker accounts get rejected at the signup form via the Spam Filter, cutting kit deployment off at the source.
• Advanced ML adapting in real time. Models retrain continuously against new phishing infrastructure patterns, so countermeasures emerge during the campaign rather than after the credentials are sold.
• GDPR-compliant by design. No third-party tracking on auth flows — compliance and security at the same time.

The result: the automated layers attackers rely on to scale phishing get harder to operate, even when the human-targeting side of the attack is unchanged.

Recommended products

• Spam Filter — reject signups from disposable inboxes and networks associated with phishing infrastructure.
• GDPR-compliant CAPTCHA — protect login and signup forms without adding third-party tracking on your auth flow.
• Invisible CAPTCHA — disrupt automated credential testing without making real users solve a challenge.