PHISHING, FRAUD, AND SCAMS
Phishing Detection
Protect Against Online Scams and Fraud
Netcraft automates the entire phishing detection and brand infringement removal process with AI-powered threat analysis. We continuously monitor the internet to uncover phishing sites, fake social media profiles, and fraudulent mobile apps, enabling rapid phishing takedowns at scale.
Netcraft provides protection against phishing, online fraud, and scams for many of the world’s leading brands.
Phishing Campaigns Are Growing in Speed and Scale
protect your brand from evolving online scams and fraud
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Detect More Phishing Attacks, Fraud, and Online Scams
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Website Impersonation
Phone and Text Scams
Fake Ads
Social Media Impersonation
Fake Mobile Apps
Deep & Dark Web
Netcraft Phishing, Fraud, and Scam Protection Capabilities
Netcraft combines rules-based logic, pattern recognition, and AI for at-scale phishing website detection. Our discovery methods leverage credential stuffing detection, headless browsers, proxy networks, and automated screenshot analysis.
Deploy countermeasures in real time to block cyber threats, with phishing websites removed from all major browsers in minutes. Users can monitor the status of these phishing scam sites — whether active or blocked — across browsers and devices, along with access to all related communications and takedown updates.
With years of experience and strong provider partnerships, website takedowns are swift and effective, with automatic reactivation if the phishing attack resurfaces within 7 days. Stay in the know about the status of each phishing campaign takedown throughout the process, from submission to response.
Our threat visibility extends beyond our customer base. It’s built on the largest proprietary data set in the industry, drawing from public DNS registrations, our cybercrime reporting community, and malicious activity reports contributed by some of the world’s largest organizations.
Automated evidence collection is combined with direct, native-language communication with service providers to ensure fast and efficient threat resolution.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Netcraft detect phishing attacks?
We receive phishing reports from industry partners, spam emails, and our anti-phishing community. With this information, we are uniquely positioned to monitor the clear, deep, and dark web for these attacks — and block them before they can cause real harm. Attacks impersonating your brand are blocked in our threat feeds, protecting billions of people.
How does Netcraft take down phishing attacks?
We automatically identify hosting providers, domain registrars, webmasters and others, and determine how to most effectively notify them (via email, API, private contact, or otherwise). We gather and present evidence of the cyber attack to demonstrate the problem to those with the ability to take down the attack.
Does Netcraft handle all types of phishing attacks?
Yes, Netcraft can handle the gambit of attacks and phishing scams, including spear phishing, phishing emails, phishing messages, phishing websites, and other potential threats.
