How to monitor for fake websites and social media accounts
Why Monitoring is Essential
protecting your brand from impersonation and fraud is more crucial than ever. Fake websites and social media accounts can cause significant damage to your brand’s reputation and customer trust. Brandsec and...
Online Brand Monitoring
Learn about online brand monitoring, its importance in brand protection, and how it can safeguard your business from digital threats.
Brand Protection and AI
Brand Protection and AI: Advancement or Rebrand?
Brand protection providers are now heavily marketing AI-driven technologies as revolutionary tools in the fight against counterfeiting, impersonation, and intellectual property infringement. However,...
How to Address Fake Facebook Profiles
Learn how to identify and address fake Facebook profiles, including staff impersonation, customer support scams, brand impersonation, and crypto scams.
Technical Signals of Fake Shops
Fake Shops cause millions of dollars of loss every year. They are simple, easy to deploy yet very effective in terms of their ability to snare victims.
Website Takedown Strategies: Malicious Domains vs Compromised Websites
Discover takedown strategies for malicious domains and compromised websites.
Learn how to collect evidence, liaise with registrars, & escalate issues.
Phishing: Malicious Domain Names
Phishing: Addressing Malicious Domain Names
Domain registrars are obligated under the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) to suspend domain names that are specifically set up for phishing purposes. However, our research indicates that brands...
What is GlobalBlock?
What is GlobalBlock?
GlobalBlock is the world’s first unified domain name-blocking service and a game changer for online brand protection
Protecting Against the Threat of Malicious Domain Name Registrations
Malicious domain name registrations are specifically created for nefarious purposes, such as phishing attacks. These registrations are more effectively mitigated at the DNS level compared to domains that have been compromised. Typically, these malicious domains are newer and...
Social Media Phishing is on the rise
Brand Protection: Social Media Phishing is on the Rise
Incorporating social media monitoring and enforcement into brand protection strategies is of paramount importance due to the extensive reach and...
Unification of Social Media Reporting is needed
16 November 2023, by Ed Seaford
Navigating the reporting systems for abuse or phishing across various social media platforms can be a daunting task for users and brands. Cybersecurity and Incident Support Teams (CIST) often face the challenge of orienting themselves in a...
Tactics cyber criminals deploy to evade detection
20 October 2022, by Ed SeafordAvoiding DetectionWeb monitoring tools play an important role in thwarting impersonation and phishing attacks, but cybercriminals deploy an array of evasion techniques to evade detection and carry out their nefarious activities. In my years...