Protect Your Brand Online
Netcraft has developed a service for banks and other financial organizations to track occurrences of their name, brands, trademarks and slogans on the Internet. The service helps companies identify sites which may be trying to construct frauds, identity theft and phishing attacks by pretending to be the bank, or are implying that the site has a relationship with the bank when in fact there is none.
Common attacks on banks through Internet content creation include phishing (attempts to trick account holders to give their account authentication details away), fraudulent association with the bank as part of investment scams, and trademark violation.
Through the Netcraft Web Server Survey, we have hostname & domain names for over 150 million web sites, and the front page content for over 50 million sites, and can check each of these for the occurrence of the bank's domains, trademarks & commonly used phrases.
Through our Netcraft Toolbar, we receive phishing reports from our anti-phishing community around the world, with over 1.4 million sites blocked as of February 2008.
Service Description
The key attributes of the service are:
- Daily monitoring of the DNS for registrations matching specific alert patterns.
- Matching alert patterns against domains and hostnames discovered by the Web Server Survey.
- Matching of text on site front pages.
- Real time monitoring of phishing site reports from the Netcraft Toolbar community.
- Matching SSL certificate Common Names found by the SSL Survey.
- Identification of sites' hosting locations.
- Reporting registration details of matching site domain names and ip addresses.
- Manual reviewing to classify sites into 'owned by company', suspicious, benign [e.g. Mention on news or personal site], customer reference, partner reference, domain registration template, and no content present. Reviewers sign for each site with the review date stamped each with a recommended date for re-reviewing.
- Support by electronic mail and phone.
Phishing site reports are monitored in real-time, and domain registrations at internals varying between daily and monthly according to TLD.
We inspect and review site content manually, so that you have a good view on which sites are benign, which might be infringing trademarks, and which might be more serious.
We can also offer bespoke approaches as required.
Please contact us by email, or phone +44-1225-447500 , ideally giving some details of names, brands and text strings you would like to monitor.