Phishing scan is a feature of Kaspersky Security designed to protect the user's personal data.
While scanning the content of SharePoint web objects, the application checks links against lists of malicious and phishing URLs.
Checking links against the list of malicious URLs allows the application to detect URLs redirecting to infected websites. Malicious URLs can be contained in the text of messages disguised as ads. The ad text prompts you to find out more about a product or service by clicking a link. The link takes you to a website with viruses, and the computer gets infected. The computer is infiltrated by viruses and malware that can access your private data and relay it to criminals.
By checking links against the list of phishing web addresses, the application is able to detect links redirecting to fraudulent websites. A phishing attack can be disguised, for example, as an email message from your bank with a link to its official website. The link takes you to an exact copy of the bank's website where you can even see the bank site's address in the browser despite actually being on a spoofed website. From this point forward, all of your actions on the site are tracked and can be used to steal your private data.
A phishing scan of SharePoint web objects detects malicious and phishing URLs embedded in the text of web objects. Malicious and phishing URLs are designed to steal your personal data or information entered in a web form. The application performs a phishing scan when a SharePoint web object is created or modified. If the phishing scan detects at least one web address appearing on lists of malicious and phishing ones, the application assigns the Phishing status to the web object.
On detecting a phishing or malicious URL in a SharePoint web object, the application performs the action configured in the Content filtering section. If the action is set to Block, the application shows a dialog saying that web content cannot be created or modified.
To protect SharePoint servers against phishing, the application uses a list of URLs of web resources that have been labeled as malicious or phishing URLs by Kaspersky Lab. The database is regularly updated and is part of the Kaspersky Security delivery kit.
You can use Kaspersky Security Network services for added protection of SharePoint servers against phishing. It uses cloud computing technology that provides up-to-the-minute information about threats before they have been included in Kaspersky Lab anti-phishing databases.
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