TinyURL

Technologies Used

- PHP
- Laravel 
- Vue.js
- Tensorflow
- Tailwind
- Docker
- Mysql 

TinyURL is a URL shortening service that allows users to shorten long URLs into short, easy to remember links. We worked with TinyURL to develop an abuse management platform for detecting and terminating malicious links created on their platform.

An AI To Detect Fraudulent Links

We built a Tensorflow based neural network that can be used to detect phishing websites within TinyURLs created by users.

At a high level, the system breaks each TinyURL link down into a series of classifications based on patterns and heuristics derived from known phishing websites and malicious links added to TinyURL in the past.

This data is then fed into a neural network to be analyzed by a series of hidden layers. If the neural network determins that the link is malicious, it will be flagged for human intervention.

Abuse Management Platform

We built an abuse management platform for TinyURL that allows them to detect and terminate malicious links created by their users.

This platform is a Laravel based site that will automatically detect suspicious links and flag them for human intervention.

The human user can then use this data to terminate malicious links and ban users who created them.

More details to come in the future!