Close up of woman's hands typing on a laptop keyboard while sitting down.

Domain Protection

Protect your domain portfolio against cybercrime and misuse, including detecting, disrupting and taking down cyber attacks impersonating your brand

REQUEST A DEMO

Phishing Detection & Disruption

Conversational Scam Intelligence

Brand Protection

Domain Protection

Domain & Website Takedown

Cyber Threat Feeds

Social Media Protection

Protecting your domain portfolio

Protecting your domain name portfolio against cybercrime has two major components: better defending domains already owned by your organization against threats like business email compromise and using external threat intelligence to detect, disrupt and takedown cyber attacks—including phishing, scams, and malware—hosted on lookalike domains.

Netcraft’s platform monitors the email security and DMARC settings across your domain portfolio, highlighting insecure configurations and automatically and transparently handling any incoming reports of misuse.

Our highly automated digital risk protection platform searches for typosquatting, homoglyph attacks and other lookalike domains. Discovered impersonations are monitored, and as soon as malicious content is detected, they are taken down.

LEARN MORE

Defeating cyber attacks with unmatched scale and effectiveness

Netcraft’s online brand protection operates 24/7 to discover phishing, fraud, scams, and cyber attacks through extensive automation, AI, machine learning, and human insight. Our disruption & takedown service ensures that malicious content is blocked and removed quickly and efficiently—typically within hours.

0%

of the world’s phishing attacks taken down

0M+

threat reports and suspicious URLs analyzed every day

0M

cybercrime attacks blocked to date

0M+

attacks taken down and growing

Detecting deceptive domains

Netcraft monitors DNS registrations, zone files and certificate transparency logs for domains and hostnames deceptively similar to your own. This is complemented by our cybercrime detection and global cyber threat intelligence.

Our insight into the tricks used by criminals—such as substituting lookalike characters, inserting/deleting/re-ordering characters, or adding keywords such as ‘update’, ‘login’ and ‘secure’—feeds into the deceptive domain score that is used to rank the likelihood of misuse.

Where an attack has yet to be launched, we’ll monitor to keep looking for fraud. This includes fetching from different locations. Once an attack has been detected and verified, it is blocked within minutes for the billions of people, and taken offline within hours.

OUR TAKEDOWN PROCESS

Woman working on multiple screens with code sitting in front of desk.

Cyber attacks that exploit your brand

Building on more than 25 years of experience surveying the internet, we use our extensive collection of domain information, website front pages, search engine advertisements, social media sites, spam mail feeds, and app stores to identify the following online threats:

Phishing Attacks

Attempts to deceive account holders into giving their account credentials (or other sensitive material) away.

Malware Infrastructure URLs

URLs that malware attempts to connect to, including those that download further stages of cyber attacks (or receive payment for malware such as ransomware).

Malicious Email Addresses

Email addresses participating in advance fee fraud schemes, found in the millions of spam emails that Netcraft analyzes.

Rogue Mobile Apps

Fake apps which impersonate organizations’ legitimate applications, in order to gain access to their users’ personal details

Fake Shops

Claiming to offer highly discounted goods, they are simply a front to capture users’ payment information, and will deliver counterfeit products (or none at all)

Deceptive Domains

Domains which are deceptively similar to legitimate websites, thus lending credibility to a cyber attack.

Frequently Asked Questions

Online retailers and businesses across all sectors use websites and domains to sell services and develop their brand. Criminals will ‘spoof’ your legitimate domain in order to make their cyber attacks appear more convincing.

Your brand reputation, your customer loyalty, and ultimately your financial bottom line is at risk because a website is often the primary point of interaction between a business and its customers (and also its employees, partners, and prospective employees).

Criminals will use a number of techniques in order to trick a victim into thinking that the fraudulent website is legitimate. This includes registering substituting lookalike characters, such as “o” (letter O) and “0” (zero) with the domain.

The fake website will often include duplicated logos, trademarks and products of the spoofed site to make the scam more convincing. Victims are reassured when they see familiar branding, and are less likely to suspect malicious activity.

Typosquatting is when criminals register a common misspelling of another organization’s domain as their own. If you mistype the legitimate site (for example, www.bbcco.uk) you’ll arrive at the criminal’s site instead. In some cases, the site will have been crafted to resemble the legitimate site you intended to visit.