Misspelled websites leave you open to hacking and cyberattacks.

This emerging threat is one of many #ShadyHacks affecting millions every day. Using misspelled URLs of well-known brands (aka typosquatting) is a type of brandjacking, where malicious hackers use trusted brands to lure in and exploit businesses and their employees.

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What is brandjacking?

Brandjacking is where hackers impersonate a known brand or company to commit fraud using misspelled URLs, fake emails and text messages, bogus job postings, and/or stolen credentials. This can also lead to bigger, more malicious attacks like ransomware that can affect your business, using gaps or weak links to get into your environment and steal your data.

Malicious hackers also use generative AI for brandjacking attacks like:

Deepfakes

Falsifying information through video or photo, typically used for malicious purposes.

Voice cloning

A deepfake that creates an exact replica of a trusted person’s voice, used to lure victims into sending valuable data.

Advanced phishing

Emails or text messages that look like they’re from your CEO or HR team, targeting people with convincing attacks.

All it takes is one employee to fall for these attacks, and BOOM—now hackers have their Microsoft 365 credentials, paving the way for more hacks. But Huntress helps protect you, your employees, and your business from #ShadyHacks and more.

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Empower Your People to Spot Brandjacking

Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training (SAT) gets your employees into the mind of a hacker so they can understand, spot, and stop modern cyberthreats before they wreck your business.

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Other #ShadyHacks You Need to Watch Out For

Brandjacking is just one example of malicious attacks affecting businesses of all sizes. Learn about other #ShadyHacks that you should be aware of and how your business could be at risk.

Ransomware| Business Email Compromise| Digital Account Theft| Phishing

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Ransomware

Hackers use shady tactics—like phishing emails or malicious QR codes—to launch ransomware attacks, which can let them steal your information, disrupt your business operations, and demand a ransom to get your data back.

HOW YOU STOP IT

Endpoint Detection and Response

EDR, or Endpoint Detection and Response, monitors and responds to threats on your business’s endpoints—think laptops, smartphones, and servers—by proactively collecting and analyzing your data. Huntress Managed EDR is your unfair advantage against shady attacks, protecting your business from endpoint attacks 24/7.

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SHADY HACK

Business Email Compromise

Business email compromise (BEC) threats infiltrate the inboxes of organizations across all industries. It’s the front door to stealing employees’ identities, and businesses of all sizes are up against this shady hack.

HOW YOU STOP IT

Identity Threat Detection and Response

ITDR, or Identity Threat Detection and Response, continuously monitors identity-related activities in your environment to spot potential threats. Huntress Managed ITDR protects your users 24/7 from identity-based attacks like email business compromise, credential theft, and more.

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Digital Account Theft

Identity-based attacks involve stealing credentials so hackers can take what they want from your business: passwords, credentials, financial and billing info...and hackers don’t even need to break in if they can just log in, camp out in your environment, and steal stuff over time before your team ever catches on.

HOW YOU STOP IT

Security Information and Event Management

SIEM, or Security Information and Event Management, collects and analyzes data from across your network to spot and manage threats. It works with EDR and ITDR solutions, correlating data to give you lightning-fast alerts on potential endpoint and identity threats. Huntress Managed SIEM gives your business quick, relevant alerts to stay safe and compliant.

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Phishing

In a phishing scam, hackers pretend to be a trusted person or company in an email or SMS message, so you’ll send them sensitive info like passwords or financial data. Employees are susceptible to this, and they need regular training on how to clock modern phishing scams so they don’t put your business at risk.

HOW YOU STOP IT

Security Awareness Training (SAT)

SAT, or Security Awareness Training, teaches employees how to spot and stop potential threats in your digital environment. Huntress Managed SAT is just-in-time training designed by experts in human risk management to get your users to think like hackers, so they can spot digital schemes and neutralize them before they wreck your business.

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