Nikhil Panwar
The dangerous impact of typosquat domains, and how frequently bad actors are mimicking legitimate brands is not an unknown problem for security leaders. It’s critical for security and IT teams to properly scan and monitor for brand threats that live across the internet, using machine learning technology to identify domains with similarities to the known… Continue reading Embedded Secrets in Webpage DOMs (and How to Use this Data to Protect Your Assets)
June 15, 2023
4 MIN
Bolster’s threat research team recently uncovered a widespread brand impersonation scam campaign targeting 100+ popular clothing, footwear, and apparel brands. Among the notable brands affected by this campaign are Nike, Puma, Adidas, Casio, Crocs, Sketchers, Caterpillar, New Balance, Fila, Vans, and numerous others. This campaign came live around June 2022 and had peak phishing activity… Continue reading Widespread Brand Impersonation Scam Campaign Targeting Hundreds of the Most Popular Apparel Brands
June 13, 2023
6 MIN
Phishing threats evolve and adapt quickly. Even before one phishing domain is taken down, many more emerge. It can become a game of whac-a-mole for security and IT teams with a lot on their plates. Keeping track of newly emerging phishing threats is necessary to protect users. As more and more processes go digital, bad… Continue reading Compare the Top 8 Open Source Phishing Threat Intel Feeds
June 06, 2023
5 MIN
Phishing attacks are the most common attack vector for hackers targeting brands of all sizes, costing brands across the market an average of $323 billion in damages yearly. With fraudulent emails, malicious links, and fake profiles inundating your employees and customers, it takes a robust cybersecurity detection and takedown strategy to fend off hackers that… Continue reading Web Beacons: How To Effectively Use Them For Phishing Detection
April 13, 2023
5 MIN
Did you know, that scammers can weaponize Google Ads to target a brand and its customers? Anyone can buy and run ads on Google Search for any set of keywords. All they need to do is pick and keyword and pay for it to be on top of the results page. Scammers do the same.… Continue reading How Scammers Use Google Ads to Target Brands & Customers
April 05, 2023
3 MIN
Phishing and scam websites often use SSL certificates to create a false sense of trust and security for their victims. By displaying the padlock icon and the “https” protocol in the URL, these websites try to appear legitimate and secure. However, SSL certificates alone do not guarantee a website’s safety or legitimacy. Anyone can obtain… Continue reading How SSL Monitoring Can Help Safeguard Your Brand’s Identity
March 02, 2023
6 MIN
Introduction In a recent incident involving the NuGet, PyPI, and NPM packages, threat actors uploaded approximately 144,000 malicious packages to these open-source package repositories containing links to phishing and scam websites. These packages contain links to phishing and scam websites. These packages were part of a BlackHat SEO / SEO Poisoning campaign intended to manipulate… Continue reading SEO Poisoning Attack Linked to 144,000 Phishing Packages
December 22, 2022
5 MIN
Threat actors use a wide array of techniques in order to restrict researchers and automated crawlers from finding their hosted phishing websites. The earlier a phishing website is found and flagged as malicious by various scan engines like VirusTotal, and Google Safe Browsing, the sooner that website goes down. A phishing website is rendered almost… Continue reading IP Range Filtering in Phishing Kits
August 17, 2022
4 MIN
Many companies use social media platforms as an outlet to manage their relations with customers, troubleshoot user problems, and answer their queries. Twitter is one of the key platforms where users can tag the brand’s handle with the troubles they’re facing or feedback about the services. The brand’s Twitter handle tries to troubleshoot the problem… Continue reading Customer Support Impersonation Scams on Twitter
June 01, 2022
4 MIN
Did you know, that scammers can weaponize Google Ads to target a brand and its customers? Anyone can buy and run ads on Google Search for any set of keywords. All they need to do is pick and keyword and pay for it to be on top of the results page. Scammers do the same.… Continue reading How Scammers Use Google Ads to Target Brands & Customers
May 18, 2022
3 MIN
