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Mountain View, CA, United States

Castle prevents account takeover in web and mobile apps.

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Blog Posts

How to win your own bot detection benchmark

November 3, 2026

Identifying AI agents: Bringing visibility and control to Castle

October 27, 2026

Reverse proof of work: How AI changed hiring signals

October 15, 2026

La majorité du trafic internet n’est pas humaine: comprendre les bots

September 21, 2026

What sits behind a “private” proxy network

September 17, 2026

Two chicken nuggets and a Claude account

September 10, 2026

While anti-bot vendors talk about AI agents, classical bots are getting the bypasses

September 3, 2026

We're unbundling Castle, and IP intelligence is the first piece

August 12, 2026

Will prediction markets turn your platform into a bot target?

Ant traps, fraud graphs, and the cost of blocking too soon

SMS verification abuse at scale: releasing our open source disposable phone number list

Inside the infrastructure behind fake signups: our open source disposable email domain list

You thought your growth was working. It wasn’t.

Introducing Castle’s Research Team

Inside a bot operator’s email verification infrastructure

Account enumeration in the wild: analyzing a real-world Spotify enumeration tool

You see an email ending in .eu.org. Must be legit, right?

January 27, 2026

Detecting forged browser fingerprints for bot detection, lessons from LinkedIn

January 16, 2026

Detecting browser extensions for bot detection, lessons from LinkedIn and Castle

January 14, 2026

Fingerprints beyond device IDs: engineered representations for fraud detection

January 7, 2026

Fraudulent email domain tracker: December 2025

December 30, 2025

Episode 3: Bought the wrong proxies again, did an unboxing anyway

December 23, 2025

Investigating tinyhost[.]shop: a disposable email API used for large-scale fake account creation

December 10, 2025

Once again, I bought the wrong proxies, better do science with my bandwidth

December 3, 2025

Because fraud detection deserves better than another AI-written SEO page

November 26, 2025

Fraudulent email domain tracker: November 2025

November 26, 2025

330 custom email domains, and what this tells us about how attackers build infrastructure for fake account creation

November 18, 2025

When canvas lies: handling randomized fingerprints in fraud detection

November 12, 2025

Is Puppeteer stealth dead? Not yet, but its best days are over

November 6, 2025

Fraudulent email domain tracker: October 2025

October 29, 2025

How to detect disposable email domains without relying on 3rd party APIs and lists

October 22, 2025

Roll your own bot detection: server-side detection (part 2)

October 15, 2025

Roll your own bot detection: fingerprinting/JavaScript (part 1)

October 8, 2025

Fraudulent email domain tracker: September 2025

September 30, 2025

Deep dive: how navigator.deviceMemory can be used for fingerprinting and bot detection

September 10, 2025

How we detected a CAPTCHA solver in the wild, and what it says about bot defenses

September 3, 2025

Why a classic CDP bot detection signal suddenly stopped working (and nobody noticed)

August 28, 2025

Fraudulent email domain tracker: August 2025

August 27, 2025

Finding links between fraudulent email domains using graph-based clustering

August 19, 2025

How to detect Open Bullet 2 bots running in Puppeteer mode

August 12, 2025

How to authenticate OpenAI Operator requests using HTTP message signatures

From detection to trust: the evolving challenge of AI bot authentication

From LLM scrapers to AI agents: mapping the AI bot landscape for detection teams

Fraudulent email domain tracker: July 2025

Bringing bot detection research to your AI-powered workflow

What browser fingerprinting tests like Amiunique and Browserleaks really show, and what they miss

How to detect Selenium bots?

How we hire at Castle

Detecting Gmail-based fake accounts: what Emailnator teaches us

How to detect Brave browser using HTTP headers and JavaScript

How to detect browser time zone using JavaScript

Bought sneaker proxies by mistake, did science with them anyway

CAPTCHAs 101: what they are, how they work, and where they fall short

Fake account creation attacks: anatomy, detection, and defense

Credential stuffing attacks: anatomy, detection, and defense

Fraudulent email domain tracker: June 2025

How bot detection misfires on non-mainstream browsers and privacy tools

From Puppeteer stealth to Nodriver: How anti-detect frameworks evolved to evade bot detection

What TikTok’s virtual machine tells us about modern bot defenses

Fraudulent email domain tracker: May 2025

What a Binance CAPTCHA solver tells us about today’s bot threats

Castle for Cloudflare: Unified bot and fraud defense, from edge to in-app

Detecting Hidemium: Fingerprinting inconsistencies in anti-detect browsers

Detect and crash Chromium bots with one weird trick (bots hate it!)

Fraudulent email domain tracker: April 2025

Understanding disposable emails

How dare you trust the user agent for bot detection?

Why traditional bot detection techniques are not enough, and what you can do about it

Analyzing anti-detect browsers: How to detect scripts injected via CDP in Chrome

Bot detection 101: How to detect bots In 2025?

How to detect Headless Chrome bots instrumented with Playwright?

How to detect Headless Chrome bots instrumented with Puppeteer?

Anti-detect browser analysis: How to detect the Undetectable browser?

Overview of anti-detect browsers

February 27, 2025

Antoine Vastel is joining Castle as Head of Research

February 21, 2025

Detecting noise in canvas fingerprinting

February 21, 2025

The role of WebGL renderer in browser fingerprinting

February 12, 2025

Anatomy of a 4-day mobile app credential stuffing attack

February 11, 2025

How bots and fraudsters exploit free tiers in AI SaaS

February 4, 2025

How bots and fraudsters exploit video games with credential stuffing

January 24, 2025

Open Bullet 2: The Preferred Credential Stuffing Tool for Bots

January 13, 2025

Canvas fingerprinting in the wild

December 27, 2024

Anatomy of a 6-day Credential Stuffing Attack From 2.2M Residential IPs

December 19, 2024

Fixing the blind spots in fraud prevention

October 15, 2024

Product Focus: Overview Page

8 Common Types of Account Abuse

August 14, 2023

Castle & Twilio Segment – Instant Account Defense

In Devices We Trust: Improving CAPTCHA Friction

How to Prevent Account Sharing Like Netflix

Using Zero Trust to reduce fraud and abuse

Which CAPTCHA(s) Should I Use?

Product focus: Policies

The Different Forms of Online Abuse

From Spam to Scams: How to Handle Fraud vs. Abuse

A Guide to Account Verification

Product focus: Time selector

7 Fraud Prevention Rules Using Device Fingerprinting

11 Ways to Pinpoint a User's True Location

9 Device Fingerprinting Solutions for Developers

7 Proxy Piercing Techniques: What Works in 2023?

Swiftly identify fraud rings with instant link analysis

February 16, 2023

Enhanced User Activity Monitoring

February 16, 2022

CyberNews Interview: Online businesses that handle money will be a target

February 1, 2022

A behavioral approach to device fingerprinting

November 17, 2021

Announcing the Event Explorer

Introducing the Detection of Multi-Accounting

Castle's API enhanced with Risk Signals

Introducing the React Native SDK

A Layered Approach to Bot Detection and ATO Prevention

Reducing Signup & Login Friction

February 25, 2021

Using Castle with OIDC Providers

February 16, 2021

Finding Signals in a Flood of Data

February 4, 2021

Bot or Not: Can you spot the automated mouse movements?

December 9, 2020

Joining Castle to help protect your online identity

October 12, 2020

Introducing the New Castle

October 9, 2020

How Effective Is Castle Against Credential Stuffing?

October 7, 2020

A UX Designer, Solutions Architect, and the Root of All Cool Things

August 28, 2020

How to Think About GDPR as a Security Vendor

Outsmarting ATO Threats

Protecting Consumer Identities Is a Team Effort

Managing ATOs When Online Engagement Is at a Peak [video blog]

Bad Bots vs SEO: Where Security and Marketing Collide

How We Built a Culture on Trust and Security

Defining AX: Attacker Experience

Introducing: Castle's Training Camp

Redefining Bot Detection: Why Identity Matters

Why Good Security Is a Profit Driver

February 13, 2020

Why More is Better for Attackers Perpetrating Account Takeover Attacks

January 21, 2020

Why Reputation is Everything When Perpetrating Account Takeover Attacks

January 8, 2020

How Acting Like Your Neighbor Helps Attackers Perpetrate Account Takeover Attacks

December 18, 2019

How Attackers Hide in Plain Sight When Perpetrating Account Takeover Attacks

December 11, 2019

How to Balance Security with Risk Tolerance and User Experience

November 20, 2019

[PODCAST] CISO Series Defense in Depth: User-Centric Security

October 17, 2019

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