Get alerted the moment a URL on one of your domains is reported as a phishing site, and respond before browsers and mail filters start blocking you.
PhishTank is a community-driven database of verified phishing URLs. Users submit suspected phishing sites, other users vote on validity, and verified entries are published as a feed consumed by browsers, mail filters, and security tools worldwide. It is one of the most widely syndicated phishing feeds in existence.
A PhishTank listing is not a minor annoyance. Verified entries trigger browser warnings, email classification as phishing, DNS-level blocking by providers like Quad9 and Cleanbrowsing, and automatic quarantine in enterprise security products. All of this can happen within hours of listing.
Real phishing sites deserve to be listed. Legitimate services also get caught for reasons that do not reflect intentional wrongdoing:
In every case the outcome is the same: your domain appears in a global phishing feed until someone notices. Without monitoring, the first signal is customer reports of blocked access.
Phishing databases that affect browser, email, and DNS-layer access to your domains.
The canonical community phishing feed. Every domain on your account is checked against verified PhishTank entries continuously.
A distributed tracking system for fraud, abuse, and phishing activity, correlated across thousands of trap addresses.
Quad9, Cleanbrowsing, Norton Connect Safe, and similar DNS-layer filters that consume PhishTank and related feeds.
Response is almost always urgent. Every hour a verified listing stays live, more downstream consumers ingest the feed and block access. The standard sequence: verify what is actually on the reported URL, remove or patch the cause, submit a correction through the feed's process, and notify downstream consumers. Generator Labs alerts include the exact URL, the feed, and the listing date, so the team moves straight to response without diagnostic work.
For context on how PhishTank fits into the broader blacklist ecosystem, see the Complete Guide to Email Blacklist Monitoring.
PhishTank is a community-driven database of verified phishing URLs. Users submit suspected phishing sites, other users vote on validity, and verified entries are published as a feed consumed by browsers, mail filters, DNS security services, and enterprise security tools worldwide.
A verified PhishTank listing triggers browser warnings (Chrome, Firefox, Safari), classification as phishing by many mail filters, DNS-level blocking by providers like Quad9 and Cleanbrowsing, and automatic quarantine in enterprise security products. Propagation to downstream consumers happens within hours.
Remove or patch the cause first (the reported URL or the underlying abuse), then submit a request through PhishTank's correction process. You should also notify downstream consumers, especially DNS security filters, which cache feed data. Generator Labs alerts include the exact URL, the feed, and the listing date to streamline this response.
Yes. Monitoring covers PhishTank, Project Honey Pot, and DNS security filter feeds (Quad9, Cleanbrowsing, Norton Connect Safe, AdGuard, Control-D) that consume PhishTank and related phishing databases. A single integration checks across all of them continuously.
Common causes include a compromised account sending phishing links from a legitimate service, an abandoned subdomain taken over by attackers, user-generated content platforms abused to host fake login pages, or a legitimate marketing email being reported as phishing by a security-conscious recipient.
PhishTank monitoring is included with every RBL Monitoring plan, alongside Microsoft SNDS, Spamhaus, and hundreds of other data sources. Free tier available.