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Detectify
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1150
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Summary

Detectify, a company specializing in web app security, leverages automation and crowd-sourced knowledge from ethical hackers to address vulnerabilities like open redirects, which occur when a web page improperly allows redirection to another URL. These vulnerabilities can be exploited in various ways beyond phishing, such as enabling attackers to bypass security measures like OAuth, SSRF, and XSS-auditor protections, or facilitating CSRF attacks by manipulating referrer headers. Open redirects are often dismissed as minor threats because their primary association is with phishing, but they can significantly amplify the impact of other vulnerabilities when combined. Detectify offers services to identify and mitigate these risks, including a free trial to test web applications against numerous known vulnerabilities, such as those listed in the OWASP Top 10.