Phishing & Brand Protection
Monitor domains, phishing pages, ads and listings that impersonate your brand, and open takedown requests from the panel.
Dark Radar Phishing & Brand Protection lets you detect digital assets impersonating your brand and phishing activity across channels. Monitor brand violations in one place, from fake domains and phishing sites to mobile apps, social media accounts and digital media content. Review the technical evidence and manage takedowns from the platform.
Phishing & Brand Protection
Key features
Define your brand identity
Set your protection scope. Start brand monitoring.
Enter your brand's official domains and core brand identity details. These details are the reference for monitoring similar domains, impersonating digital assets and brand abuse across channels.
Detect fake domains
Review domains impersonating your brand and their registration details.
Detect domains that resemble your official domains and could abuse your brand identity. Review similarity and severity scores, registration data and related technical details to prioritise potential threats.
Analyse phishing sites
Look beyond the suspicious address to the phishing activity behind the site.
Access screenshots, collected data fields and technical evidence for phishing sites impersonating your brand. Review how fake pages interact with users and which information they target to assess the nature of the threat.
Monitor fake apps and accounts
Track the digital platforms where your brand is used without permission.
Monitor mobile apps, social media accounts and digital ads that impersonate your brand or corporate identity. Bring violations from different platforms into one place to assess impersonation and unauthorised use.
Monitor digital media and brand mentions
Follow how your brand is mentioned in the news and on social media.
Monitor content that mentions your brand on news sites, social networks and user reviews. Review brand mentions and related content in one view and stay informed of developments that could affect your reputation.
Manage takedown operations
Move detected violations into the takedown process.
Start takedown requests for fake domains, phishing sites, impersonating accounts and other brand violations. Track each request's status, history and outcome centrally to manage your brand protection operations.
Included in
- Free planNot included
- EssentialNot included
- Professional1 brand, 5 takedowns a year
- Intelligence 3601 brand, 5 takedowns a year
Frequently asked questions
Domains that resemble your official domains are scanned. Each is listed with similarity and severity scores, registration data and technical details. Domains that host an active website are reviewed further.
The site's screenshot, the information it asks users for, and visual and textual similarity to your brand are reviewed. The finding is presented with this evidence and its severity.
Yes. Impersonating apps in app stores and impersonating accounts on social media are monitored. When you define your official app developers and accounts, they are excluded from findings.
Yes. Content that mentions your brand in ads, listings, news sites, social networks and user reviews is monitored.
The official and allowed domains, official app developers and social media accounts you define are excluded from findings. The remaining records are assessed by similarity and severity score.
You start a takedown request for the finding. After approval under your organisation's approval setting, the request is sent to the relevant hosting provider, domain registrar or platform. You track the request's status and history in the panel. The Professional and Intelligence 360 packages include 5 takedown requests per year.
The outcome depends on the evidence of the violation, the policies of the hosting provider or platform, and its response time. The relevant provider or platform makes the takedown decision.
Your brand name and keywords, official and allowed domains, official app developer names, official social media accounts and logo. A contact address for takedown requests is also added.
Monitor what impersonates your brand and manage takedowns.
With Dark Radar, monitor brand impersonation across platforms, assess it with technical evidence and manage takedowns from one security infrastructure.
Start with your brand