Doppelgängers: Finding Job Scammers Who Steal Brand Identities

Fraud is on the rise and occurs in many forms. A growing number of criminals are impersonating real companies to trick job seekers into handing over their personal information or money. These impersonated companies face risks in terms of damage to their brand identity. What can companies do to protect their brand against fraud? Information security teams often have the tools to help find impersonation fraud before it becomes a problem. Using threat intelligence and a security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) platform, suspicious similar domains were found, intelligence about those domains gathered, and the evidence presented to information security teams to make informed decisions on whether to block the domain. Automation reduced the time it took information security analysts to respond to similar domain alerts. Guidance is given to turn this data into an actionable program to begin building brand identity protections into any security program.