Digital Risk Protection Preventing, monitoring, countering online threats
Comprehensive external threat monitoring using AI, digital identity–based risk scoring, and machine learning to detect phishing, fraud, and impersonation for rapid takedown.
Online landscapes shift rapidly, and cybercriminals increase their efforts every year
Digital scams put customers, careers, and revenues under threat, so businesses must act fast to mitigate risks. When brands fortify themselves with Digital Risk Protection solutions, they disarm fraudsters, giving colleagues the tools to fight their threats.
Hackers launch a fresh attack every 30 seconds.
How will your team handle the next attack?
Since 2019, phishing attacks increased by 150% year on year.
Across all regions and sectors, data breaches cost $4.35 million on average throughout 2022.
More than 3/4 of experts believe their firm became more vulnerable to cyberattacks in recent years.
Tackling risks as soon as they appear
Successful teams must tackle digital risks before they develop, rather than after an attack. Proactive risk management requires effective protection across the full range of online attack surfaces.
Hackers deploy social engineering tactics to trick consumers into revealing their PII (Personal Identifiable Information) over email. Using Digital Risk Protection, companies protect their clients from fraud by identifying malicious domains with active MX servers. Blocking these websites protects your assets and prevents phishers from launching their scams.
Businesses must defend their inboxes against spear phishing, as business email compromise puts data, infrastructure, and finances at risk. Every time a colleague downloads malware or transfers funds to a scammer, businesses suffer. With Digital Risk Protection, you’ll stop scams and fraud at the source (their MX servers), tackling spear phishing before it strikes.
Fraudsters use sponsored social media and paid search ads to impersonate brands, lure users to malicious sites, and harvest sensitive data. Continuous monitoring and rapid removal of these ads prevents scams from reaching potential victims.
Scammers host fraudulent websites that impersonate your brand to trick would-be customers. Targeting valuable personal data, these websites include:
- Job board scams
- Advanced fee scams
- Online purchasing scams
- Investment fraud
- Subscription scams
- Affiliate program scams
Tackling these scam sites, in all their shapes and forms, helps competent companies secure their assets.
Impersonators falsify brands and colleagues on social media, supporting other phishing channels or running scams directly from the platform. To combat scams and fraud, businesses must monitor their online assets across social platforms to maintain their security, and that’s where Digital Risk Protection comes in.
How it works
EBRAND’s X-RAY Digital Risk Protection combines contextual AI detection, brand-specific fine-tuning, and real-time risk scoring to combat threats and protect your online assets. The X-RAY portal delivers clear, actionable views of detected risks, enabling faster decisions and targeted responses. With continuous analyst oversight and automated enforcement options, threats are identified, prioritised, and neutralised before they can cause damage.
Teams identify ongoing weaknesses and emerging attacks with X-RAY’s contextual AI detection tools.
Powered by proprietary Large Language Models (LLMs), X-RAY analyses over 1,000 data sources to detect brand abuse in context, uncovering nuanced variations, deceptive domains, and sophisticated phishing tactics. RADAR enables early detection, continuous monitoring, and the ability to neutralise existing threats while pre-empting the next attack.
Tracker Monitoring and Threat Augmentation
Proactive protection through continuous AI-powered monitoring detects threats across subdomains, geofenced content, mobile-only phishing, and ambiguous brand terms. This ensures risks are identified, prioritised, and neutralised before they cause harm.
Smart automation delivers smooth, swift action against digital threats.
Solution delivers legal takedowns and automated reports to global blocklists, blocking malicious pages, links, and accounts rapidly and at scale to set a strong digital deterrent. Dedicated Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) analysts continuously refine detection logic, ensuring the system adapts as attackers evolve their tactics.
Sharing threat insights helps businesses counteract attacks and any structural weaknesses.
X-RAY provides 24/7 real-time reporting and integrates with your information system via API. The reports tool also provides regular, exportable insights, empowering collaboration and data-led digital strategy.
Cybercriminals target their spear phishing attacks at high-profile individuals with the most to lose, including executives, influencers, and more.
These tailored identity fraud attacks require custom solutions, and that’s where VIP and Executive Protection comes in. Learn about the evolving, AI-powered threat landscape, and how to stay safe with a comprehensive solution, below.
Ask, and we’ll deliver
EBRAND’s managed service team turns advanced technology into targeted action. Every Digital Risk Protection program is tailored to the client, combining AI-powered detection, threat intelligence, and analyst expertise to deliver precise and timely results.
A dedicated account manager ensures your X-RAY setup is optimised for your brand. From handling ambiguous brand terms and monitoring subdomain abuse to configuring automated ad detection and takedown workflows, they adapt your monitoring to stay relevant and effective.
We provide practical, actionable strategies to mitigate phishing, fraud, and impersonation risks across domains, subdomains, social media, and paid search. Our guidance covers emerging attack vectors such as geofenced phishing and mobile-only threats, ensuring your defences match real-world risks.
Our specialists deliver targeted advice on complex threats, helping you interpret risk scoring, fine-tune detection logic, and prioritise responses. This includes assessing external attack surfaces, identifying weak points, and recommending countermeasures grounded in threat intelligence.
We work closely with your team to ensure monitoring and enforcement fit seamlessly into your security operations. Multi-lingual support and cross-cultural awareness ensure your brand is protected effectively in all relevant markets.
Dedicated CTI analysts continuously review detections, investigate linked infrastructure, and refine monitoring rules as attacker tactics evolve. This ensures your threat detection remains current, accurate, and proactive against both known and emerging risks.
Channels to enforce yourself with X-RAY
Search the names of your assets in X-RAY, and you’ll identify hackers impersonating your brand to launch their scams. Each X-RAY report breaks results down by channels, so you can filter your threats and prioritize your action.
Social media
Scraping social media for malicious links, sponsored ads and cyberattack coordination equips teams to take down threats. X-RAY detects threats across all relevant social platforms, whether they're regional, international, or anything in between.
- Youtube
- Flickr
- Vimeo
- TikTok
- Twitch
- Quora
- Telegram
- More!
Domain names and DNS
With X-RAY, you can search domain infrastructure databases to analyze assets like domain name systems (DNS), Zonefiles, SSL certificates, MX records, subdomains and domains themselves. Simply map any threats, weaknesses, or infringements, and X-RAY delivers effective takedown tools to disarm your attackers.
Third-party threat intelligence
As cyberattacks increase, cybersecurity firms gather more information about them. X-RAY harnesses these cyberthreat intelligence databases, highlighting any relevant threats in proximity to your IP. Detailing these insights in one tab supports efficient action to counter any risks.
Image recognition
Images prove valuable, yet hard to trace. X-RAY protects this value and smooths this difficulty with smart reverse image search tools.
Web content
Scammers exploit proprietary terms and phrases, moving them across different platforms to trick targets into falling for attacks. X-RAY’s SEO tool searches all relevant platforms, compiling results for effective solutions.
Dark web channels
Trawling dark web, deep web, and encrypted forums delivers necessary insights to combat threats.
X-RAY technology
Opening you X-RAY portal unlocks cutting-edge tools to tackle digital threats and strengthen your company's online presence. When you combine the platform's asset monitoring, self-service, managed service, and integration tools, you'll deploy an arsenal of AI-powered risk protection tools to achieve your digital goals.
X-RAY delivers a powerful suite of Digital Risk Protection tools to empower teams and streamline security work
The X-RAY platform delivers holistic approaches to digital risks, along with the customization features for tailored solutions. Advanced technologies including geofencing bypass, multi-device rendering, and keyword variation strategies ensure hidden risks are exposed and addressed fast.
Integration capabilities
Your Digital Risk Protection insight flow smoothly into your existing workflow with X-RAY’s range of integration options. Depending on your team’s preference, X-RAY integrates with your tech stack via API, Webhook, or a custom solution.
EBRAND’s happy to explore other integration options, to ensure that any new capabilities thrive in your workflow ecosystem.
- Domains and subdomains containing brand or credential-related triggers
- Public misconfigurations and unpatched vulnerabilities
- Expired SSL certificates and expiring domain registrations
- Geofencing bypass to detect hidden sites
- Multi-device rendering to uncover threats targeting specific devices or OS
- Paid ads impersonating your brand
- Phishing kits and cloned websites
- Receive clear, actionable notifications
- Assign and comment on cases
- Manage detections
- Tag items with custom labels
- Create custom reports
- Block malicious websites and initiate takedowns
- Initial threat landscape assessment and priority setting
- Workflow prioritisation based on client needs
- Pre-approved enforcement actions or escalation through the platform
- Continuous review of threats and scan results
- Ongoing program optimisation to maximise detection accuracy and ROI
- Custom reporting tailored to your requirements
- On-demand investigations
- Blocklist management and takedown strategies
Digital Risk Protection FAQs
Digital Risk Protection helps companies defend their reputation, stop data breaches, and reduce financial losses.
If your goals include equipping yourself with the tools to manage threats to your business online, Digital Risk Protection delivers. Achieving these goals becomes straightforward with a technological solution in hand. Many security teams strive to increase their awareness of digital threat and fraud landscapes, and X-RAY provides the necessary web crawlers, data analytics, and machine learning algorithms to hit that target. Other objectives include streamlining workflows and priotizing threats, and live alerts and AI risk prioritization supports these goals too.
Financially speaking, Digital Risk Protection cuts the costs of cyberattacks, data leaks, and security breaches. Cost-effective KPIs always go down well, as a rule. Proactive technology solves threats before they escalate, saving time, money, and reputations. Crucially, these reputations also contribute to a company’s ROI, as market value, investments, and customerbases depend on strong public perception.
When businesses focus on building data, fortification, and growth opportunities around their online assets, Digital Risk Protection helps achieve these goals.
The longer answer: Threat intelligence involves collating, interpreting, and distributing insights about an organizations strengths, weaknesses and emerging threats. For modern businesses, many of these threats manifest themselves across online landscapes, hence their relevance to digital risk management.
Businesses leverage their threat intelligence insights to build robust security strategies, reinforcing vulnerable assets, developing threat-specific defences, and expanding their security perimeters. To strengthen teams, business leaders also partner with external experts, and source new capabilities for researching and tackling threats.
Tools like the X-RAY RADAR deliver threat intelligence, and EBRAND’s takedown automation turns this intelligence into effective risk management.
The longer answer: Digital Risk Protection equips businesses to identify, monitor, and solve the risks surrounding their presence online. These risks include cybersecurity, brand reputation, and compliance management. For each of those three objectives, the threats, and the solutions, pertain directly to digital shadows.
The term ‘digital shadows’ refers to an organization’s digital footprint, and the traces and ripples it creates online. Unfortunately, malicious actors exploit these shadows, stealing assets and fuelling further crimes like fraud and cyberattacks. Businesses must therefore monitor their digital shadows, ensuring they’re not leaving vulnerable assets online, and enforcing any infringements or suspicious activity. Digital Risk Protection tools accomplish this goal, using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to detect anomalies within a company’s digital ecosystem.
Safeguarding digital channels with a robust tool like EBRAND’s X-RAY plays a vital role in today’s digital landscape. Overall, Digital Risk Protection fortifies online reputations, protects sensitive assets, and ensures reliable compliance.
Each phishing attack deploys distinct strategies to target victims and exploit digital assets. To understanding more about phishing, we can still look to its real-world namesake.
Sophisticated phishing organizations operate like well-oiled criminal enterprises, leveraging automation and social engineering to launch large-scale attacks while also tailoring scams to exploit specific industries—such as spoofed banking portals to steal customer credentials, fake fintech investment platforms to defraud users, or impersonated SaaS login pages to hijack corporate accounts. These threat actors constantly evolve their tactics, from deploying AI-generated deepfakes in business email compromise (BEC) scams to registering malicious domains that mimic legitimate brands, making it critical for financial institutions, fintech firms, and software companies to deploy proactive digital risk protection that detects phishing infrastructure, monitors for brand impersonation, and disrupts attacks before they reach victims.
Here’s ten common types of phishing attack that hackers might level at your team:
- Spear phishing
Spear phishing scams occur when hackers personalize their attacks, targeting specific individuals with information, names, convincing reference points to enhance their deception.
- Business Email Compromise (BEC)
Spear phishing becomes a BEC attack when it specifically targets employees using their business email. Hackers often send BEC attacks from accounts spoofing a target’s colleague, with the intention of stealing company resources.
- Whaling
High-value spear phishing, AKA whaling, targets business leaders and c-suite executives with identity fraud.
- Clone Phishing
In clone phishing attacks, hackers create near-identical clones of legitimate digital assets like websites, login pages, or previously sent emails, filling them with malware to trick their targets.
- Smishing
Phishing attacks use a variety of channels and attack vectors. Security experts refer to phishing attacks that use SMS, text messages, or WhatsApp as ‘smishing’.
- Angler Phishing
Hackers spoof legitimate social media accounts to deceive victims, in attacks known as ‘angler phishing’. These fake assets also add evidence to phishing attacks on other channels.
- Search Engine Phishing
Search engine phishing involves advanced marketing tactics, as hackers create organic SEO listings or even PPC campaigns to promote their attacks. When their fraudulent, malware-laden pages achieve decent levels of traffic, search engine phishing attacks siphon data and ecommerce profits by deceiving would-be customers.
- Tabnabbing
In tabnapping attacks, hackers take advantage of a victim’s tendency to lose track of their tabs. Phishing malware opens a fake tab, which blends in with legitimate workflows to steal assets and spread further hacks.
- Vishing
Wishing, or voice phishing, involves phishing attacks via vocal channels, particularly phone calls and voice messages.
- AI Phishing
Hackers keep up with trends in AI, taking advantage of AI chatbots, deepfake audio and video, and auto-generated fake pages to trick their targets in AI phishing attacks.
Crucially, hackers develop new phishing strategies all the time, innovating and iterating to bypass ageing defences. Digital Risk Protection helps businesses detect existing phishing campaigns, and pre-empt new techniques as they evolve.
Digital Risk Protection helps detect, understand, identifying, and counteract security threats online, forming an important part of cybersecurity. Businesses therefore incorporate Digital Risk Protection into their cybersecurity frameworks, whether they use MITRE ATT&CK or another strategic tool.
MITRE’s ATT&CK framework (Adversarial Tactics, Techiniques, & Common Knowledge) catalogues the types of cyberattacks and identity fraud that hackers use to trick, infiltrate, and exploit victims. With a Digital Risk Protection solution in place, businesses detect and monitor potentially malicious TTPs targeting their brand, team, or clients. EBRAND’s X-RAY scans emerging threats, and also compares a company’s assets with Common Knowledge records of existing attacks, reinforcing security strategies with third-party intelligence.
Digital Risk Protection also integrates with cybersecurity frameworks like the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework. The NIST framework provides guidance and best practice advice to help businesses understand, manage, and minimize threats online. As established, the X-RAY RADAR prioritizes understanding, and the TRACKER tool supports threat management and minimization.
Find out about how to strengthen your cybersecurity strategy by getting in touch with our Digital Risk Protection professionals.
What is domain shadowing? Well, domain shadowing is a deceptive cyberattack where hackers hijack a legitimate domain to create malicious subdomains for phishing, malware distribution, or fraud. These rogue subdomains exploit the reputation of the main domain, making scams harder to detect.
How Domain Shadowing Works
Cybercriminals gain access to a domain owner’s account (often via phishing or brute-force attacks) and create hidden subdomains. These subdomains host fake login pages, malware, or scam sites, while the main website remains unaffected. Since the malicious activity happens on a subdomain (e.g., scam.legit-site.com), victims and security tools may overlook the threat.
Real-World Impact
On Consumers: Victims lose money, personal data, and trust in legitimate brands.
On Businesses: Reputation damage, financial losses, and costly recovery efforts.
How to Fight Back
For Businesses:
Monitor subdomains for unauthorized activity.
Enforce strong credentials: Use 2FA, DNSSEC, and limit admin access.
Deploy digital risk protection to detect and takedown shadowed domains.
For Consumers:
Check URLs carefully: Look for odd subdomains or misspellings.
Verify site legitimacy with tools like WHOIS or Scamadviser.
What Is DNS Shadowing?
A related tactic, DNS shadowing, involves hackers altering DNS records to redirect traffic to malicious servers. Organizations must also monitor their DNS from attacks and breaches, as this infrastructure represents a crucial attack surface in your digital landscape. DNS shadowing represents another way to exploit trusted domains, and organizations must implement robust solutions like Digital Risk Protection to stay safe online.
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Stay ahead of cybercriminals: Proactive defense is the best way to secure your digital assets.
EBRAND delivers the best Digital Risk Protection solution.
EBRAND offers the best Digital Risk Protection solution for companies that need to safeguard their people, assets, and brand against phishing, CEO fraud, dark web leaks, impersonation, and cyberattacks. With attacks growing more targeted and complex each year, businesses rely on EBRAND’s X-RAY platform and expert support to stay one step ahead of online threats.
X-RAY monitors over a thousand data sources, including dark web forums, phishing infrastructure, domain records, social media, app stores, and more. It identifies and tracks digital risks in real time, helping companies prevent attacks before they cause damage. The system powers proactive defence against VIP and executive threats, including business email compromise, impersonation, and targeted phishing campaigns. Whether your challenge is CEO fraud, spear phishing, or identity theft, X-RAY equips your security and legal teams with actionable intelligence and powerful takedown capabilities.
At the core of the platform is RADAR, which detects new threats early, and TRACKER, which follows their activity across digital ecosystems. These tools work together to surface unknown risks, assess your attack surface, and map vulnerabilities across your digital footprint. Our reverse image search technology, domain infrastructure analysis, and deep integration options ensure every vector is covered.
EBRAND backs its Digital Risk Protection platform with expert-led managed services. You receive tailored support from cyberthreat analysts and account managers who understand your specific risks, markets, and industry. This combination of intelligence, automation, and expert collaboration makes it possible to monitor VIP profiles, detect impersonation threats, and remove fake websites or rogue apps with speed and precision.
X-RAY integrates easily with your internal tools and workflows, using APIs or custom solutions to ensure seamless implementation. Whether you need to enforce takedowns, monitor brand abuse, assess external attack surfaces through EASM, or understand your exposure on the dark web, EBRAND delivers the insight and actions required to protect your business.
By investing in a comprehensive Digital Risk Protection solution, you reduce the chances of phishing attacks, data breaches, executive impersonation, and reputational damage. EBRAND helps you prevent fraud, protect high-profile individuals, and secure every part of your online presence with confidence.
To get started, book a free digital risk assessment with EBRAND and learn where your vulnerabilities lie.
