WC-T-01Level 1 · Signal
Lookalike domains registered against the brand
- Threat
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
A Threat signal for the organization from exposure monitoring (EXPO, brand monitoring): a domain that imitates the company's name was registered.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0
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- ID.RA-03
- MITRE ATT&CK
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None mapped
The definition, in detail
Definition
Every person is Exposed to the phishing or payment fraud the domain is built for.
Example
The monitoring feed reports a new domain that swaps one letter of the company name and has mail records set; the fraud team warns accounts payable the same day.
How it is measured
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- Brand monitoring
- Risk domain
- Web, cloud and SaaS
- Provenance
- Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Lookalike domains registered against the brand" per person from Breach & dark-web exposure and read it beside the other Web, cloud and SaaS signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 0 sequences and 2 breach scenarios.
A "lookalike domains registered against the brand" record is evidence of what reaches the person (the threat side of the model). It says nothing on its own about what the person did.
Continue exploring
"Lookalike domains registered against the brand" (WC-T-01), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/wc-t-01-lookalike-domains-registered-against-the-brand
Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one signal.
The initial assessment
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