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State of Browser Security

Explore the latest browser security threats like AI-driven phishing and zero-day exploits with Menlo Security's report. (No form fill required!)

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Attacks Employ AI to Advance Beyond Phishing and Ransomware Delivery

Today’s attackers are no longer relying on simple exploits. Instead, they are leveraging a combination of zero-day attacks, social engineering, and advanced phishing techniques to infiltrate systems and steal valuable data. More than 98% of attacks originate from Internet usage according to Gartner, with 80% of those targeting local, end user browsers. Common attack vectors included:

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In 2024, one in five attacks displayed some form of technique designed to evade traditional network and endpoint-based security controls.

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PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Dozens of Different Browsers. Thousands of Threats. One Solution.

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Your First Line of Defense Against Highly Evasive and Adaptive Threat (HEAT) Attacks

Menlo Security has specialized in protecting the browser, and we have over a decade of experience building rock-solid solutions that provide complete defense for users and for the enterprise.

Menlo was the first to recognize a new class of browser-based attacks that exhibit dynamic behavior. Examples of these exploits include those that adjust tactics based on environment, fileless attacks that run in memory to avoid AV software, and those that delay execution to obfuscate the attack vector. We’ve defined this category as highly evasive and adaptive threat (HEAT) attacks.

The first step to stopping HEAT attacks is seeing them, with Menlo HEAT Visibility

Menlo HEAT Visibility identifies and surfaces the evasive web-based threats that you have probably never seen before. This evasive threat intelligence, derived from Menlo logs, will give you deeper insight into malicious campaigns and the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) attackers are using. Alerts are compiled into a single dashboard and can be integrated into your workflow with the Menlo API.

Leave Attackers in the Cold with Menlo HEAT Shield AI

Attackers are now using AI to create new attacks and customized approaches to gain access to your network. You need to fight AI with AI…from Menlo. The simple addition of HEAT Shield AI to your existing Menlo deployment delivers dynamic policy enforcement to every page load, without changing anything else in your security stack.

HEAT Shield AI is a radical departure from other offerings that rely on signatures or pattern matching, because these methods can only identify what has already been discovered. With HEAT Shield AI, you can identify and block zero-hour phishing attempts for full click-time protection, often up to six days before other vendors can detect such threats.

With HEAT Shield AI, browser traffic passes through the Menlo neural network, which employs multiple inspection engines simultaneously to deliver real-time analysis in a single pass. Because analysis of different page elements, including JavaScript, DOM, logos/graphic elements, input fields, and URL paths are all examined in parallel with zero latency.

With Menlo, you can dynamically block the latest credential phishing and brand impersonation attacks, including those that appear to come from reputable vendors whose products your organization actually uses.

When HEAT Shield AI identifies a phishing site, it dynamically creates and applies a configured policy enforcement action—either displaying the page in read-only mode or blocking it completely, so there is no need for security or incident response teams to investigate as the attack proceeds. All results are compiled in a single dashboard and can be integrated into your SIEM or SOAR platforms via the Menlo API.

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What Fuels HEAT Shield AI? The Menlo Secure Cloud Browser.

HEAT Shield AI is built on the Menlo Secure Cloud Browser, which separates the endpoint from web-based traffic, analyzing the content and context to make real-time decisions so users don’t have to. The Secure Cloud Browser protects the user and the enterprise, providing complete email security, as well a secure document and archive viewer.

Because email is the backbone of enterprise communications, it is one of the first venues used for phishing and malware dispersal. While most users now realize there is no Nigerian prince seeking banking details, the propagation of attacks via email, SMS, and text remain successful.

With the Secure Cloud Browser, email traffic is analyzed just like all other web traffic. Rather than relying on other sources to determine if an email or the links within it are “good or bad,” all content is assumed to be malicious and executed in the Secure Cloud Browser. Only safe content is sent to the local browser. Menlo integrates seamlessly with existing mail server architectures, so there is nothing new to deploy or learn.

Frequently Asked Questions

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What problem does Menlo Protect solve?
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It solves the problem of defending against sophisticated browser-based threats, particularly zero-hour phishing attacks that evade traditional security measures.It addresses the challenge of attackers using AI-powered phishing kits, zero-day URLs, and social engineering tactics.

How does Menlo protect against phishing?
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It uses an AI-powered, on-click inspection system and computer vision technology to analyze web content in real-time. Web requests are executed within the Menlo Secure Cloud Browser, and only safe content is delivered to the user's local browser. This allows for the detection and blocking of phishing attempts, even with new URLs or impersonation techniques.

How is it deployed and managed?
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M is simple to deploy and manage, supporting any browser on any device. There's no new endpoint software to manage, and enforcement actions are easily defined and monitored in the admin portal.

What kind of visibility does it provide?
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Menlo Protect provides evasive threat intelligence and alerting for real-time visibility and improved incident response.

The Pioneer of Browser Security

All Menlo products are part of the Secure Enterprise Browser solution. An evolution from remote browser isolation technology that some vendors are just now adding to their security offerings, a Secure Enterprise Browser creates a hardened digital twin of users’ local browser on the fly.

Because the browser has been our sole focus, we are able to deliver a solution that offers all the security you want with the performance and familiarity that users require.


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"Highly evasive threats are growing as threat actors evolve how they deploy phishing and malware attacks. Tools like Menlo Security’s browser security solution, including their HEAT Shield, can help to combat cyber threat vectors for the world’s top financial institutions, governments and leading enterprises."
"Menlo Security is the easiest way for us to analyze malicious URLs and combat HEAT (Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats) as we conduct our investigations and research. It has been a good solution for us when it comes to our incident response especially as we investigate hundreds of threats every day. With Menlo, we can easily detect malicious URLs leading to faster threat detection response. Menlo allows us to provide our analysts with a risk-free internet experience without impacting user performance."
"Menlo gives us full visibility inside the browser allowing me to detect and block highly evasive threats targeting my users. Before Menlo Security we didn’t know our users were being targeted with evasive web threats until it was too late. Menlo Security now provides us with visibility into the browser allowing us to completely remove the malware problem from web and email links. Menlo allows us to provide users with a risk-free internet experience without impacting user performance."
"Menlo gives us full visibility inside the browser, allowing me to detect and block highly evasive threats targeting my users."
"We know we need to protect our network from emerging attacks and threats targeting the web browser. We are seeing highly evasive threats as a concerning and growing tactic amongst threat actors, and solutions like HEAT Shield can dynamically block these attacks, even if they are zero hour, keeping our endpoints safe."
"The solution prevents all web and email security threats before they enter our network. The main difference with the on-premise proxy was that we were heavily dependent on signatures, web categorization, and filtering. We have seen a decrease in the number of security alerts that our security ops team has to follow up on. Menlo provides a periodic report, which we can check on a regular basis. The report gives me confidence that the websites that are supposed to be blocked are always blocked. It lessens the tasks of the personnel who are doing web monitoring, so they're able to do other things."
"Menlo provides my users a risk-free internet experience with no noticeable difference to their browsing speed."