Do I need domain name monitoring for my business?
Domain name monitoring is essential for corporate brands
Domain name monitoring has become a must-have service for any brand with a strong digital presence. It can help protect your brand against threats by alerting you to 3rd party domain name registrations that contain (or...
Common Domain Name Security Risks
Common Domain Name Threats
Domain name security is an essential part of protecting your brand and reputation, and ensuring the long-term success and profitability of your business. By implementing strong...
Proposed Whois Disclosure System
15 October 2022
Whois was once a powerful brand protection tool
Whois used to be a tool that disclosed ownership of a domain name. Brand Protection agencies like brandsec would use it as the first port of call to discover data points on domain name abusers. Information from...
Another typosquatting domain used in scam
24 August 2022
India: Scammers registered a confusingly similar domain name of a Hyperbad Aerospace company and managed to scam their partners.
TFC Manufacturing run of the domain name tfcmfg.com. The scammers registered the domain name “tfcmfq.com”. The...
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.
Domain Tools recently released its spring report, Internet Scale Patterns in Malicious Infrastructure...
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 (CNAME) in the Domain Name System (DNS), but no host provides content for it. This either...
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 December 2021.
On December 10, 2021, NIST published a critical Common...
Domain name transfer scams
1 November 2021
Domain transfer scam attempts seem to be on the rise. This week several major Australian brands received .au domain password recovery emails from auDA, the administrator of Australia’s .au top-level domain.
Domain name passwords allow domain names to be...
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 domain names and update them on any new registrations.
I wasn’t surprised by the request. The Facebook (FB)...
Registry Lock to Prevent Domain Hijacking
Registry Lock Prevents Domain Name Hijacking
What is Domain Name Hijacking?
Domain name hijacking, aka DNS Hijacking, is when an...
Report: Domain Security and Enterprise Risk Management
Dave Piscitello, Dr. Colin Strutt, and Lyman Chapin of the Interisle Consulting Group released a report (click here) on 28 June 2021 looking at the adverse and costly consequences of domain abuse for enterprise brands. They explore how domain names can be incorporated into an...
Another scam alert from auDA
auDA the administrator of Australia’s .au top level domain issued a scam alert today. We are seeing emails being sent out by someone posing as an auDA employee and asking for either copies of identification documents or verification of contact information. auDA does not...