An actor that security researchers call Prolific Puma has been providing link shortening services to cybercriminals for at least four years while keeping a sufficiently low profile to operate ...

Security researchers are seeing an uptick in the use of reverse tunnel services along with URL shorteners for large-scale phishing campaigns, making the malicious activity more difficult to stop. This ...

Google today launched its own URL shortening service, aptly named the Google URL Shortener (http://goo.gl/). The service is, for the moment, only available in the ...

My organization has created a URL for a Google Doc for others to share. The URL contains more than 100 characters. Are there security issues in shortening the URL to six characters? Are there benefits ...

URL shorteners have become a ubiquitous presence on the web, largely due to the rise of Twitter. Tinyurl, Bit.ly and the like have come along to make those ugly long URLs look nice and neat in your ...

We tested the 10 best URL shorteners in 2026 for ease of use, analytics, branding, pricing, and campaign management to find ...