With cybercrime on the rise, companies in 2021 have experienced increased ransomware attacks, business email compromise (BEC), phishing attacks, supply chain attacks, and online brand and trademark abuse. While domain cyber risk is rising, the level of action being taken by Forbes Global 2000 companies to improve their domain security posture has remained unchanged, leaving these companies exposed to even more risk.
The risk of not addressing your domain security can be catastrophic. Domains that are not being protected pose a significant threat to your cybersecurity posture, data protection, consumer safety, intellectual property, supply chains, revenue, and reputation.
70% of third-party owned domains target the Forbes Global 2000 with suspicious or malicious activity
The intent of malicious domain registrations is to leverage the consumer trust placed on the targeted brand to launch phishing attacks or other forms of digital brand abuse or IP infringement that leads to revenue loss, traffic diversion, and a diminished brand reputation. There are endless domain-spoofing tactics and permutations that can be used by phishers and malicious third parties.
In the 2021 Domain Security Report, we identified and analyzed domains containing the brand names with more than six characters from the Global 2000 companies that were not owned by the brands themselves. Based on frequent observation of use in phishing domains, our analysis included common Latin-character substitutions, for example, using C0rnpanyNarne.com to look like CompanyName.com.
Out of the third-party-owned domains, how are these third-party domains currently being used?
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