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Phishing” refers to all the techniques used to capture confidential information needed to commit a crime<\/strong>. Trademarked domain names are regularly used for phishing. <\/h4>\n\n

The fraudster will pose as a familiar organization (bank, social security fund, tax office, etc.), using its logo and name. The fraudster will send a number of e-mails asking the victim to update or confirm their banking details, following a technical incident<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n

The url link used to enter your details is most frequently a counterfeit of the attacked brand’s website such as that of a bank or e-commerce site). In 2016, 400,000 phishing sites were detected every month<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

Fake website copy to collect personal data <\/h2>\n\n

In August 2017, Airbnb, recovers the domain name airbnbnow.com<\/a> used for phishing and whose website reproduces that of the platform for renting accommodation from individuals. Google encounters a similar case of cybersquatting with the domain name web-account-google.com<\/a> copying its website to retrieve users’ personal information (email, password). <\/p>\n\n

In January 2017, the Cr\u00e9dit Mutuel bank recovered the domain name credit-mutuelgroupe.com<\/a> used for phishing<\/strong> purposes. This name associating the brand with the term groupe was the address of a website slavishly copying the source code of the<\/strong> financial institution’s official website without authorization<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n

In June 2017, the same applicant recovered cic-financial-bk.com<\/a>, whose website offers banking and financial services. For the expert, this cybersquatting domain name CIC sought to establish a phishing <\/strong>site or with a similar fraudulent purpose, which corresponds to use in bad faith. <\/p>\n\n

In December 2016, Carrefour bank recovered the disputed domain name carrefourbanque-fr.com<\/a> used to retrieve personal information from Internet users.<\/p>\n\n

Shipping group CMA CGM has detected a typosquatting of domain name cma-cgmn.com<\/a> used to send emails to the company’s customers asking them to provide banking information in a phishing scheme. <\/p>\n\n

Personal data collected by false support services <\/h2>\n\n

In January 2017, Google recovered 5 domain names associating its Gmail email service with support (e.g. gmailsupportusa.com<\/a>). The website attempted to impersonate Gmail in order to sell the personal data collected from deceived Internet users. <\/p>\n\n

Dell has dismantled a network of 98 dell-chat-support.<\/a> com-type Internet addresses attempting to impersonate the computer manufacturer’s support team in order to obtain the personal data of deceived customers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

The social network Twitter has put an end to a specific phishing scheme called ” tech support scam pop-up<\/strong> ” via the disputed domain name twittertour.com<\/a>. The associated website told users that their computers had been hacked and that they needed to re-enter all their personal information. In 2018, the Snapchat app recovered a domain name associating it with hack and online<\/a> enabling users’ accounts to be hacked. <\/p>\n\n

Espson printers have recovered a domain name squatting on their trademark in the NewgTLD .SUPPORT. The domain name epsonprinter.support<\/a> was used by the defendant in an attempt to pass itself off as an official support service.<\/p>\n\n

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Solidnames alerts<\/a> allow brands tobe notified daily of the registration of a domain name used for phishing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solidnames’ SecURL service<\/a> warns users of changes in web usage of monitored names. SecURL detects the setting up of a website for a phishing operation and<\/strong> the activation of mail associated with a domain name used for phishing.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phishing” refers to all the techniques used to capture confidential information needed to commit a crime. Trademarked domain names are regularly used for phishing. The fraudster will pose as a familiar organization (bank, social security fund, tax office, etc.), using its logo and name. The fraudster will send a number of e-mails asking the victim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4608","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPhishing - Solidnames<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/phishing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Phishing - Solidnames\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Phishing” refers to all the techniques used to capture confidential information needed to commit a crime. Trademarked domain names are regularly used for phishing. The fraudster will pose as a familiar organization (bank, social security fund, tax office, etc.), using its logo and name. The fraudster will send a number of e-mails asking the victim […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/phishing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Solidnames\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-12T09:30:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Phishing - Solidnames","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/phishing\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Phishing - Solidnames","og_description":"Phishing” refers to all the techniques used to capture confidential information needed to commit a crime. Trademarked domain names are regularly used for phishing. The fraudster will pose as a familiar organization (bank, social security fund, tax office, etc.), using its logo and name. The fraudster will send a number of e-mails asking the victim […]","og_url":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/phishing\/","og_site_name":"Solidnames","article_modified_time":"2025-05-12T09:30:24+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/phishing\/","url":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/phishing\/","name":"Phishing - Solidnames","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-03-20T15:51:56+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-12T09:30:24+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/phishing\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/phishing\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/phishing\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Accueil","item":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Phishing"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/","name":"Solidnames","description":"Noms de domaines : surveillances, rachats et gestion","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4608\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidnames.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}