Domain Threat Monitoring

Comprehensive Domain Attack Surface Visibility

Your domain is the foundation of your digital identity and often the first target for cyber attackers. Domain threat monitoring provides continuous visibility into how your brand appears across the global domain namespace, alerting you to potential threats before they can harm your customers or reputation.

Webasto's domain monitoring platform processes billions of data points daily from domain registration feeds, DNS query logs, certificate transparency records, and web crawling infrastructure. Our proprietary algorithms analyze this data in real-time to identify domains that could be used to impersonate your brand, host phishing campaigns, or redirect your traffic to malicious destinations.

Unlike reactive approaches that only detect threats after customers report suspicious activity, proactive domain monitoring identifies malicious infrastructure during the registration and setup phases. This early detection enables intervention before attackers can launch campaigns, dramatically reducing the risk of successful fraud and the associated remediation costs.

What We Monitor

New Domain Registrations

Our systems process the global domain registration feed within minutes of new domains being created. We analyze each registration against your brand patterns, identifying domains that contain your trademarks, common misspellings, homoglyph substitutions, or keyword combinations associated with phishing. Coverage extends across more than 1,500 top-level domains including ccTLDs, new gTLDs, and specialized extensions.

DNS Record Changes

Continuous monitoring of your authoritative DNS records detects unauthorized modifications that could indicate account compromise or DNS hijacking attempts. We track A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, NS, TXT, and other record types, alerting immediately when changes occur outside of normal change windows. Historical DNS snapshots enable forensic analysis when incidents are detected.

SSL Certificate Issuances

Certificate transparency log monitoring identifies when SSL certificates are issued for domains matching your brand patterns. Since legitimate services increasingly require HTTPS, attackers frequently obtain certificates for phishing domains to avoid browser security warnings. Early detection of certificate issuances often provides advance warning of impending attacks.

WHOIS Changes

We track ownership and administrative changes across your domain portfolio and known threat domains. Changes in registrant information, nameservers, or registrar can indicate domain theft, expired domain hijacking, or preparations for fraudulent activity. WHOIS monitoring also supports legal evidence collection for takedown and litigation purposes.

Lookalike Domain Discovery

Our similarity engine continuously generates and monitors potential lookalike domain variations based on sophisticated analysis of your brand names. We identify domains using character substitutions (such as replacing lowercase L with the number 1), homoglyphs from international character sets, common misspellings, prefix and suffix variations, and domain hack combinations.

Detection Technology

Webasto's detection platform combines multiple intelligence sources with machine learning analysis to achieve industry-leading accuracy while minimizing false positives. Our technology processes raw domain data through several analysis stages before generating alerts.

Similarity Scoring

Proprietary algorithms calculate visual and phonetic similarity between monitored brand terms and newly registered domains. We incorporate Levenshtein distance calculations, keyboard proximity analysis, phonetic matching, and visual confusability scoring to identify domains that could deceive users even when they differ from the original brand name.

Infrastructure Analysis

Detected domains undergo automated infrastructure analysis to assess threat probability. We examine hosting providers, IP reputation, MX record configuration, historical domain usage patterns, and connections to known threat actor infrastructure. Domains hosted on bulletproof hosting or sharing infrastructure with confirmed phishing sites receive elevated risk scores.

Content Classification

Our web crawlers capture content from detected domains to classify their purpose and assess threat severity. Machine learning models trained on millions of labeled examples identify phishing login pages, credential harvesting forms, malware distribution sites, and brand impersonation content with high accuracy.

Behavioral Pattern Recognition

Analysis of registration timing, registrar selection, privacy service usage, and infrastructure setup patterns reveals threat actor behaviors. Many phishing campaigns follow predictable patterns in domain acquisition and deployment that our systems recognize from historical attack data.

Alert Management and Prioritization

Raw detection data without intelligent prioritization overwhelms security teams and leads to alert fatigue. Webasto's platform processes detections through automated triage to surface the highest-risk threats requiring immediate attention while cataloging lower-priority findings for periodic review.

Risk Scoring

Each detected threat receives a composite risk score based on similarity to protected brands, infrastructure risk indicators, content classification results, and historical attack patterns. Customizable thresholds determine which alerts require immediate notification versus dashboard review.

Alert Routing

Integrate alerts with your existing security operations workflows through email notifications, Slack and Microsoft Teams messages, SIEM event forwarding, ticketing system integration, or custom webhook endpoints. Different alert types can route to specific team members based on severity and affected brands.

False Positive Management

Legitimate domains occasionally trigger similarity alerts. Our platform learns from analyst feedback to improve future classification accuracy. Approved domains are automatically suppressed from future alerts, while similar domains from the same registrant are flagged for expedited review.

Reporting and Analytics

Comprehensive reporting provides visibility into your domain threat landscape and demonstrates security program effectiveness to stakeholders.

Executive Dashboards

High-level dashboards summarize threat activity, detection trends, and response metrics in formats suitable for board presentations and management reporting. Interactive visualizations highlight geographic attack distribution, TLD prevalence, and threat category breakdowns.

Operational Reports

Detailed operational reports support security team planning and resource allocation. Analyze detection volumes by brand, assess coverage across monitored TLDs, and identify patterns suggesting targeted campaigns against specific business units.

Compliance Documentation

Automated report generation supports regulatory compliance requirements including SOX IT controls, PCI DSS security monitoring, and sector-specific regulations requiring brand protection programs. Audit-ready documentation tracks all detections, investigations, and response actions.

Integration Capabilities

Webasto domain monitoring integrates with your existing security infrastructure to enable coordinated detection and response across tools.

SIEM Integration

Forward detection events to Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, and other SIEM platforms using standard syslog, CEF, or LEEF formats. Correlation with other security events enables comprehensive threat hunting and incident investigation.

SOAR Playbooks

Trigger automated response workflows when high-severity threats are detected. Sample playbooks include automatic IOC extraction and blocklist updates, evidence collection and preservation, takedown request initiation, and customer notification distribution.

Threat Intelligence Platforms

Export detection data in STIX/TAXII format for integration with threat intelligence platforms. Shared intelligence enhances detection across your security ecosystem and supports collaboration with industry partners.

REST API

Comprehensive REST APIs enable custom integrations with internal tools, reporting systems, and security automation workflows. Query detection history, retrieve alert details, update investigation status, and manage monitored brand terms programmatically.

Related Protection Services

Domain monitoring integrates with additional Webasto services for comprehensive protection:

• Phishing Protection analyzes detected domains for active credential harvesting campaigns
• Domain Takedown Services execute rapid removal of confirmed malicious domains
• Typosquatting Defense proactively secures high-risk domain variations
• Threat Intelligence provides broader context on detected threat actors