Phishing & brand protection blog

Practical guides on spotting phishing sites, taking them down and protecting your brand.

Guides

How to Spot a Phishing Website: 10 Warning Signs

Learn 10 practical warning signs of a phishing website, from lookalike domains to fake login forms, so customers and staff stop before typing a password.

Takedown

Found a Site Impersonating Your Brand? The First 24 Hours

A practical first-day playbook for brand and security teams: capture evidence, assess impact, get the site blocklisted, request takedown and protect customers.

Takedown

How to Take Down a Phishing Site Hidden Behind Cloudflare

Why phishing sites use Cloudflare, what its abuse process can and cannot do, and how to run parallel reports to the host, registrar and browser blocklists.

Guides

Typosquatting and Homoglyph Domains Explained

How attackers register lookalike domains such as examp1e.com and exarnple.com, why they work, and how brands can detect, prioritize and remove them effectively.

Scams

Fake Parcel-Delivery SMS and Tracking Pages: How They Work

How fake delivery texts and tracking pages steal card details and one-time codes, why they work so well in Türkiye, and how consumers and brands should respond.

Takedown

DMCA Notices Against Cloned Websites: When They Work

Copyright notices can remove cloned websites, but not in every case. Learn when a DMCA notice helps, when it fails, and how it fits with phishing abuse reports.

Email security

SPF, DKIM and DMARC: Stop Spoofed Email in Your Brand’s Name

A plain-language guide to SPF, DKIM and DMARC: what each one does, how to roll out DMARC enforcement safely, and what e-mail authentication cannot stop.

Scams

Fake Ads and Deepfake Investment Scams Using Your Brand

How scammers use fake ads, cloned news pages and deepfake videos of executives to sell bogus investments, and how brands can detect, report and remove them.

Scams

Fake Customer-Support Accounts on Social Media and Chat Apps

Impostor support accounts intercept unhappy customers on social media and messaging apps. Learn how the scam works and how brands can prevent and remove it.

Takedown

The Phishing Site Takedown Process, Step by Step

What happens after a phishing site is reported: detection, verification, blocklisting, host, registrar and CDN notices, follow-up and re-emergence checks.