Originally published at scouthub.dev .

LinkGuard is a tool for checking suspicious links before you open them. You paste the link, and the tool follows the chain of redirects behind it, asks five global threat-intelligence sources at the same time, then gives you a risk score from 0 to 100 with a plain explanation of why. It is open source under the MIT licence, and its website works in Arabic and English.

Its motto is simple: know before you click.

Why do we need to check links?

Phishing is a crime that combines social engineering with technical tricks to steal people's personal data and financial account details, according to the definition used by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) [1].

It is not going away. In 2025 the APWG observed about 3.8 million phishing attacks, up slightly from 3.76 million in 2024 [1].…