Lookalike domain
A domain registered to be misread as someone else's: a swapped character, an extra hyphen, a different suffix. The cheapest piece of infrastructure in this economy and the one most often pointed at a brand.
Why it matters to you
Registration usually precedes use by days. Watching the namespace around your own domains buys you the interval between someone preparing and someone sending.
Where we meet it
A new registration resembling a monitored name is an indicator like any other, so it arrives as a rule your stack can run rather than as a report somebody has to read.
Connected terms
Fast flux
Rotating the addresses behind a domain within minutes, so blocking an address never removes the service. A resilience technique, applied to infrastructure that expects to be reported.
Business Email Compromise (BEC)
Fraud committed from inside a real mailbox: the attacker reads the thread, waits for an invoice and answers it with different bank details. No malware, no attachment, nothing for a scanner to find.
Malvertising
Buying advertising to deliver the lure: a paid result above the real one, pointing at a page that looks like the software the visitor searched for. Distribution with a budget and a targeting console.
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Where this term stops being vocabulary
Malveine is where you watch it happen to you
Knowing the word is the cheap half. The platform is the half where the term arrives attached to your domain, with a timestamp and the source it came from.
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