Netcraft Phishing Protection

Netcraft

Features:

Supported apps:

Permissions

Device encryption

About Netcraft

About this app

The free Netcraft app protects you from phishing and web-based malware attacks on your mobile device. The app will block all known attacks whilst you browse the web.

Although major desktop web browsers have effective anti-phishing protection, the same is not true of mobile equivalents. The Netcraft app allows you to benefit from phishing protection on your mobile device, taking advantage of Netcraft's constantly updated phishing site feed. Over 177 million phishing sites have been detected and blocked by our community to date [June 2023].

Features:

✔ Block phishing and web-based malware attacks whilst browsing the web
✔ Report phishing attacks to help protect others and climb the Netcraft leaderboard
✔ View your block history and stats to see how Netcraft has protected you

Supported apps:

The Netcraft app protects you in popular browsers and applications, and our free trial lets you confirm that all your favourite apps are supported.

Permissions

In order to protect you, the Netcraft app requires the following permissions:
• Accessibility service: to check for malicious URLs whilst you browse the web, and to block phishing sites

Device encryption

When you enable Netcraft's protection, your device may disable device encryption. This applies to all applications which use accessibility services. If you use device encryption, simply ensure it is re-enabled after enabling protection in the Netcraft app.

About Netcraft

Netcraft provides Internet security services including anti-fraud and anti-phishing services, application testing and PCI scanning. Netcraft is based in London, United Kingdom, and has been a registered company in England and Wales since 1987 (company number 02161164).

Netcraft Privacy Policy: https://www.netcraft.com/privacy/

Ratings and reviews

Doesn't do what it's supposed to do. Supposedly detects phishing messages. Except that I've been receiving heaps of phishing messages and NOT A SINGLE MESSAGE was detected. I even went to report instances of phishing and still doesn't function as advertised. I conclude this app does nothing apart from charging you a small monthly fee.

Netcraft is invaluable for having a tool that has been around since the late 90s. If you want to check network services for.most.any nation and to see what up time and how many front end DMZ servers there are in an organization or when it was booted last what the operating system maybe or trace route a content director who is redirecting you to malware or copyright Netcraft will act as the third party provider to document. Sometimes you may find that Google and Cloudflare are redirecting you

Typing in the suspect URL doesn't seem to be enough info to help. Maybe if one could send a screenshot of the " Phish Bait " post. I'd like to see that option added to the app.