Bypassing Cloaking when Hunting Phishing Sites
Wallet Drainers and other forms of phishing try to hide from security systems designed to catch them.
From Query param keys, to fake blog posts, and time limited attacks, there are many ways that scammers hide their sites from detection and blocklisting.
In this talk we will go over the latest cloaking techniques these sites use, approaches to bypassing cloaking, and some unsolved problems that will spark ideas.
Nikita is the CEO and co-founder of ChainPatrol. After working at Coinbase, Nikita started ChainPatrol to protect users from phishing attacks. Today ChainPatrol protects leading Web3 communities including Consensys, Arbitrum, ZkSync, Polymarket, and many more. ChainPatrol develop systems to crawl domains and social media to identify and takedown phishing.
Nikita has given numerous Security presentations in the past 4 years to the wider crypto ecosystem.
- DSS 2025 Security Talk
- Security Panel at DevConnect 2023 User Security Summit
- Multiple Metamask Event Security Talks
- Speaker at Eth Denver 2023
- ETH NYC Finalist and Presenter 2022