Average company faces 1000+ spoofed domain threats per year
Digital Shadows published new research revealing that in the last four months, each of its clients experienced on average 360 domains impersonating their company and brand name – nearly 1,100 per year, on average. It also found that commercial phishing kits are commonly available in criminal marketplaces, many on the so-called ‘dark web’ for as little as $50 – cybercriminals just pick the brand they want to target, choose the domain or subdomain, and pay the fee to get their fraudulent website up and running.
In just the last four months, the Digital Shadows’ Photon Research Team flagged over 175,000 impersonating domains raised to its clients over four months of 2021. It analyzed five sectors in detail. At 20% of the total, financial services are the most impacted, followed by food & beverage (12%), technology (11%), insurance (6%) and healthcare (4%) and ‘other’ at 53%.