Phishing & Spoofing Protection

Stop Phishing Attacks Before They Reach Your Customers

Phishing remains the most prevalent cyber attack vector, with criminals continuously refining their techniques to evade detection and deceive users. Domain-based phishing exploits the trust your customers place in your brand, using lookalike domains and convincing replica websites to steal credentials, financial information, and personal data.

Webasto's phishing protection service provides comprehensive detection and response capabilities across the entire phishing attack lifecycle. From initial domain registration through active exploitation, our platform identifies threats and coordinates rapid takedowns to minimize victim exposure and protect your brand reputation.

Our approach combines proactive domain monitoring with reactive threat intelligence to achieve detection rates exceeding 99%. When phishing infrastructure is identified, our integrated takedown service executes removal within minutes rather than the days or weeks typical of manual processes.

Understanding the Phishing Threat Landscape

Modern phishing operations have evolved from crude mass-email campaigns into sophisticated targeted attacks. Criminal organizations invest significant resources in creating convincing impersonations that bypass technical controls and exploit human psychology. Understanding these attack patterns is essential for effective protection.

Spear Phishing and Business Email Compromise

Targeted attacks against specific individuals or organizations often begin with domain-based infrastructure. Attackers register lookalike domains to send convincing emails impersonating executives, vendors, or business partners. These campaigns may use domains differing by single characters or leveraging new TLDs to appear legitimate. Business email compromise schemes have caused billions of dollars in losses by exploiting trust relationships.

Credential Harvesting Campaigns

Mass phishing campaigns direct victims to fake login pages designed to capture usernames and passwords. These pages often replicate corporate single sign-on portals, banking interfaces, or popular cloud services. Sophisticated campaign infrastructure includes multiple redirect layers, geographic targeting, and evasion techniques to avoid detection by security tools.

Malware Distribution

Phishing emails frequently deliver malware through malicious attachments or links to drive-by download sites. Domain infrastructure supporting these campaigns may host exploit kits, package malicious payloads, or serve as command and control servers. Detecting and disrupting this infrastructure prevents infections before they occur.

Multi-Layer Detection Architecture

Effective phishing protection requires visibility across multiple data sources and analysis techniques. Our platform integrates diverse intelligence feeds with proprietary detection technology to identify phishing threats regardless of their sophistication level.

Domain Registration Monitoring

Phishing campaigns typically begin with domain registration. Our systems process global registration feeds in real-time, analyzing new domains for similarity to protected brands. Machine learning models trained on millions of historical phishing domains identify high-risk registrations within minutes of creation, often before any phishing infrastructure is deployed.

Email Header Analysis

Integration with email security gateways enables analysis of inbound messages for domain spoofing indicators. We examine sender authentication results including SPF, DKIM, and DMARC validation, identifying domains attempting to impersonate your organization. Federated analysis across customer networks provides visibility into emerging campaigns in their earliest stages.

Web Content Classification

Automated crawlers capture content from detected domains, analyzing page structure and visual elements for phishing indicators. Our classification engine identifies login forms, credential input fields, brand logo usage, and similarity to legitimate sites. Computer vision technology detects visual impersonation even when HTML structure differs from known phishing templates.

SSL Certificate Intelligence

Certificate transparency log monitoring identifies SSL certificates issued for suspected phishing domains. Since modern browsers display security warnings for HTTP sites, attackers routinely obtain certificates to increase victim trust. Certificate issuance often provides early warning of impending phishing activation.

URL Reputation Feeds

Our platform aggregates intelligence from multiple URL reputation sources including browser safe browsing services, threat intelligence vendors, and community reporting networks. Cross-referencing detected domains against these sources accelerates classification while expanding coverage beyond domains directly monitored.

Automated Response Capabilities

Speed is critical when responding to active phishing campaigns. Every minute a phishing site remains operational increases victim count and damage to your brand. Our automated response capabilities minimize the window between detection and neutralization.

Instant Takedown Requests

When confirmed phishing is detected, automated systems submit takedown requests to hosting providers, registrars, and content delivery networks. Established relationships with major providers enable expedited processing, with average response times under 15 minutes for high-confidence threats.

Blocklist Distribution

Identified phishing URLs are immediately submitted to browser safe browsing services, email security vendor feeds, and corporate web proxies. This multi-channel distribution provides layered protection while takedown processes complete, warning users who navigate to phishing sites despite other controls.

Evidence Preservation

Automated capture of phishing pages, network infrastructure details, and hosting information preserves evidence for legal action and forensic analysis. Timestamped screenshots, WHOIS records, and DNS snapshots support trademark enforcement and potential criminal referrals.

Integration with Security Operations

Phishing detection and response must integrate with your broader security operations to enable coordinated incident handling and consistent policy enforcement.

SIEM and SOAR Integration

Forward detection events to Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and other SIEM platforms for correlation with endpoint alerts, authentication logs, and network traffic. SOAR integrations trigger automated playbooks for incident response, evidence collection, and stakeholder notification based on threat severity.

Email Gateway Integration

Bi-directional integration with email security gateways enables blocking of detected phishing domains in inbound mail flows. When our platform identifies phishing infrastructure, block rules propagate to your email gateway within seconds, preventing delivery of messages containing malicious links.

Security Awareness Integration

Report phishing data to security awareness platforms to enhance training content with real-world examples targeting your organization. Employees learn to recognize actual attack patterns rather than generic simulations, improving phishing resistance across your workforce.

Reporting and Metrics

Comprehensive reporting demonstrates program effectiveness and supports continuous improvement of anti-phishing controls.

Campaign Analytics

Track phishing campaign patterns over time including attack frequency, domain registration trends, targeting patterns, and takedown effectiveness. Identify seasonal variations and correlations with external events to anticipate future attack patterns.

Response Metrics

Measure mean time to detection, mean time to takedown, and reduction in victim exposure compared to baseline. Benchmark performance against industry averages and demonstrate ROI from phishing protection investments.

Executive Dashboards

High-level summaries suitable for board presentations and management reporting. Visualize threat landscape evolution, protection coverage, and key performance indicators in accessible formats for non-technical stakeholders.

Related Services

• Domain Monitoring provides early detection of phishing domain registrations
• Domain Takedown executes rapid removal of phishing infrastructure
• Brand Impersonation Protection extends coverage beyond domain-based threats
• Phishing URL Checker allows ad-hoc verification of suspicious URLs