Phishing, Malware, Spam – The worst domain name spaces
Friday 15 July 2022 This blog looks at the dubious awards for worst domain spaces across Malware, Phishing Attacks and Spam. Not all domain spaces are designed to be good. [...]
Subdomain Takeover – A common risk
Sunday 10 July 2022 A subdomain takeover occurs when an attacker gains control over a subdomain of a target domain. Typically, this happens when the subdomain has a canonical name [...]
Domain Portfolio Management as a service – removing human error
Where the quality of the management of a critical asset, such as domain names, is dependent on the quality of an individual, you significantly increase the likelihood of a human-related [...]
Domain Name Management for starters
Domain Name Management (DNM) is an effective solution in keeping your business or organization up and running smoothly. It is one less thing to worry about, and instead focuses on [...]
Should you take domain spoofing seriously?
Domain spoofing is a very serious problem because it allows cybercriminals to conduct phishing and other malicious attacks. If a hacker manages to trick your customer into opening an email [...]
Domain Abuse: Typo Domains used in elaborate scam
Domain Name abuse is a key tool used by bad actors to scam brands, their staff, prospective employees, suppliers, customers etc... A complaint was recently filed through the Arizona District [...]
Best Practice Domain Name Management
What is Domain Name Management? At its basic domain name management is a managed service, to ensure that all of your domain names are effectively administered, compliant and remain risk-free [...]
.TR (Turkey Domains) relaxing registration requirements
We are pleased to announce that soon registration of .com.tr, .net.tr, and .org.tr registrations will be much easier than in the past. Documents will no longer be required and these names [...]
log4j vulnerability assessment
The Brandshelter Global IT/Engineering teams have been monitoring the ongoing situation with regard to Log4j since the disclosure of the ‘Log4shell’ exploit right after it was made public on 9 [...]
Domain name transfer scams
1 November 2021 Domain transfer scam attempts seem to be on the rise. This week several major Australian brands recieved .au domain password recovery emails from auDA, the administrator of [...]
Meta.com – Hiding in plain site but undiscoverable
by Ed Seaford, Managing Director of brandsec Earlier last week, a member from the media contacted me if I knew any way to provide them with a list of Facebook’s [...]
Purchase order scams on the rise in October
Last month brandsec was engaged to assist several brands to enforce against lookalike domain names that were used to impersonate them and their employees. The false domain names in question [...]