Cyber Threat Intelligence and Digital Risk Protection
Brand Protection and Lookalike Domain Monitoring
We detect domains, fake sites and social media accounts imitating your brand early. Each is classified by the risk it poses to your customers.
What it is
Phishing and fake payment pages use domains resembling your brand to gain trust. The similarity may be a letter change, a different extension or lookalike characters. New domain registrations and newly issued TLS certificates are scanned for these patterns. Each domain found is checked for a website or mail infrastructure.
Scope
- Scanning for typo, alternate extension and lookalike character variants
- Monitoring new domain registrations and Certificate Transparency (CT) logs
- Tracking each domain's website, mail (MX) records and content changes
- Social media accounts and mobile apps imitating your brand or executives
- Classifying findings by risk and feeding them into your block lists
The need
When organizations need it
- When customers report payment links sent in your brand's name.
- Before a major campaign or product launch, when domains that could imitate your brand need monitoring.
- When your customer service receives complaints about fake support accounts opened in your brand's name.
Method
How we work
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Variants
We generate likely imitation variants of your brands and domains.
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Monitoring
We monitor new registrations, certificates and social media accounts for these variants.
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Classification
We classify each finding by risk, based on its content, mail infrastructure and target audience.
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Action
We feed high-risk findings into your block lists and, where needed, into takedown.
Outcome
What you have at the end
You have the domains and accounts imitating your brand, with their risk levels. Blocking and takedown can begin promptly for high-risk ones.
Frequently asked questions
Should we register lookalike domains ourselves?
Registering the few most likely variants can help. Registering every variant is not possible. That is why monitoring and fast action are needed together.
How do we stop fake email being sent in our brand's name?
Your own domain needs SPF, DKIM and DMARC with a reject policy. This does not stop email sent from lookalike domains. Those require monitoring and takedown.
Is social media covered?
Yes. Accounts imitating your brand or executives can be included. The platforms to monitor are set with the scope.
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