How To Safeguard Against Domain Look-Alikes With Domain And Brand Monitoring Services
January 13, 2020
How To Safeguard Against Domain Look-Alikes With Domain And Brand Monitoring Services
Should organizations need to worry about domain look-alikes? The answer is, unfortunately, yes. Threat actors often impersonate popular brands and domains to lure users into visiting malicious pages and divulging their personally identifiable information. This data then ends up peddled in underground markets or used in more sinister cyberattacks. Worse, users who hand in their credentials to cybercriminals are not the only ones affected. The spoofed businesses suffer, too. They suffer consequences that include:
- Loss of web traffic
- Loss of customer trust
- Tarnished brands and reputations
- Profit loss
Off to a Rocky Start: Attackers Target Venture Capitals and Start-Ups in Business Email Compromise Schemes
Over the past years, organizations have lost their money to businesses email compromise attacks. We do not expect this to decrease anytime soon.
In such an attack, threat actors typically mimic a company's chief executive officer (CEO) or other C-level executives to ask someone from the finance department to transfer funds to an account that they control. This attacks can come in various types such as:
- Bogus invoice scams
- Account compromise
- Attorney impersonation scams
- Data theft
How to Avoid Becoming a Victim: Using Domain and Brand Monitoring Tools
Any organization can become a victim, regardless of size. Experts opine that small businesses are at greater risk since they often do not use robust security solutions nor employ their own cybersecurity and incident response teams. Venture capitals can fall into this business size category.
Domain and brand monitoring tools may thus come in handy for them as these allow them to proactively scout for potential spoofed versions of their websites. Domain Monitor can alert users to any change made to a domain of interest. Brand Monitor, meanwhile, allows users to keep track of matches and variations of their domain names that may figure in cyberattacks.
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