Case Study

Detecting Spoof Domains

Detecting Spoof Domains

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How one global retailer detected almost 2,000 domains impersonating their brand. www.digitalshadows.com Global Retailer Digital Shadows Domain Infringement Concerns Retailer was concerned by the extent to which their domains are impersonated online. The company suspected that these domains targeted customers to harvest their credentials or sell fraudulent goods. While they had received ad hoc alerts from customers, they had no way of identifying these sites themselves. Retailer inputed primary domain into asset management page within the SearchLight portal. Minutes later, the registered assets status moves from "Submitted" to "Live". SearchLight monitored for domains registered that have slight permutations. This includes homoglyphs, homophones, domainsquats, swappers, rep

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