Don’t Shortchange Your Organization’s Security With URL Shortener Services

Published

2021-04-06 00:00

Collected

2026-07-08 01:59

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id: 4072
title: "Don’t Shortchange Your Organization’s Security With URL Shortener Services"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/dont-shortchange-organizations-security"
published_at: "2021-04-06T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["red-teaming", "attack-surface", "osint", "security-risks", "url-shortener", "internet-archive"]
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# Don’t Shortchange Your Organization’s Security With URL Shortener Services

## Summary

Why organizations should avoid URL shortener services: brute-forced link archives keep short links resolvable, and a Bishop Fox Cosmos case study showed how such exposure ends in full compromise.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2021-04-06T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/dont-shortchange-organizations-security
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4072