F.A.C.C.T. Digital Risk Protection (ранее Brand Protection)

Digital Risk Protection (formerly Brand Protection) is an online platform for identifying and eliminating external digital risks based on artificial intelligence.

2019

Brand Protection. Technology and Capabilities

Brand Protection is a set of work on round-the-clock monitoring, notification and response to cases of misuse of brands on the Internet. During the response, the brand's copyright holder is provided with legal protection, including the removal of illegal content, the elimination of phishing or fraudulent sites and the prosecution of computer attackers.

According to Group-IB, as of July 2019, the emergence of an independent Brand Protection direction within the framework of a set of products and services for responding to and investigating information security incidents has become a natural response to a constant increase in the number of targeted attacks on corporate brands present on the Internet.

The most characteristic manifestations of such attacks are the continuing mass mailing of spam (spam) to customers of companies, a sharp increase in the number of fake and phishing sites, the presence of specialized malware, as well as an increase in cases of misuse of a recognizable brand on the Internet (distribution of counterfeit products, gray and black imports, fraud) and "black PR." The main danger of such threats lies in the combination of direct financial losses of the company and a decrease in the "reputation value" of the attacked brand.

Search technologies

• Site Owner Identification through Group-IB Threat Intelligence
• Detection of objects (images, videos) subjected to significant distortion using digital fingerprinting technology
• Monitoring in the shadow segment of the network (darkweb): discussions of vulnerabilities and fraudulent schemes, ads for the sale of counterfeit goods, databases, information collection and search for insiders in the company

24/7 monitoring of more than 3,000,000 resources

• Web resources
• Mobile app stores (App Store, Google Play, Ovi, etc.)
• Advertising networks (Yandex.Direct, Google AdWords)
• Online stores, trading platforms and aggregators (Ebay, Yandex.Market, Avito, IRR, etc.)
• Social media
• P2P-networks
• Darkweb
• Spam
• Domain names
• Message boards
• Search issue
• Phishing Resource Bases
• Messengers
• Darkweb
• Torrent trackers
• Streaming services

Elimination of violations

• Notifications to Resource Administrators
• Site blocking
• Dialog with real resource owners
• Deleting information through moderator accounts

Video description of the system operation

(May 13, 2019)

2017

Open Brand Protection

On September 28, 2017, Group-IB, an international company for the prevention and investigation of cybercrime and high-tech fraud, announced the opening of Brand Protection. Its specialists will be responsible for monitoring and preventing economic crime and brand fraud.

As you know, brands attract not only buyers, but also cyber fraudsters. According to the company, since 2013, Group-IB has eliminated more than 35 thousand violations related to illegal use of the brand, and the number of detected fraudulent pages is growing annually: in 2016 alone, the Group-IB response center blocked 14 thousand fraudulent pages using brands of various companies. These include clone sites, phishing pages, the sale of counterfeit products, fake mobile applications, fake social media accounts, illegal contextual advertising.

Companies are losing millions of dollars and carrying reputational risks. To properly counter threats, we have strengthened the team of experts and analysts on brand protection and allocated these services in a separate direction, - said Ilya Sachkov, CEO and founder and Group-IB.

According to Dmitry Rusakov, head of Brand Protection, Group-IB's own monitoring system and search technologies allow you to monitor millions of resources around the clock, identify violations and block dangerous sites for 24 hours both in national domain zones and in foreign ones.

With the opening of a separate area, the company plans to launch an online service where customers will monitor the process of eliminating violations, and actively develop their own TECont, including for the foreign market.

Search technologies. 24-hour monitoring

Search technologies

• Site Owner Identification by Bot-Trek IntelligenceTM Database
• Detection of objects (images, videos) subjected to significant distortion using digital fingerprinting technology
• Monitoring in the shadow segment of the network (darkweb): discussions of vulnerabilities and fraudulent schemes, ads for the sale of counterfeit goods, databases, information collection and search for insiders in the company

24/7 monitoring of more than 3,000,000 resources

• Websites
• App Store,, Google Play Ovi, etc.
• Advertising networks (Yandex.Direct, Google AdWords)
• Online stores, trading platforms and aggregators (Ebay, Yandex.Market, etc.)
• (Avito, IRR, etc.)
• E-mail mailings
• Social media
• P2P-networks
• Darkweb
• Spam

2011: BrandPointProtection Service Suite Descriptions

BrandPointProtection is a unique set of services for round-the-clock monitoring, notification and response to cases of misuse of brands on the Internet. During the response, the brand's copyright holder is provided with legal protection, including the removal of illegal content, the elimination of phishing or fraudulent sites and the prosecution of computer attackers.

The emergence of a new independent service BrandPointProtection within the framework of information security incident response and investigation services was a natural response to the constant increase in the number of targeted attacks on corporate brands present on the Internet. The most characteristic manifestations of such attacks are the continuing mass mailing of spam (spam) to customers of companies, a sharp increase in the number of fake and phishing sites, the presence of specialized malware, as well as an increase in cases of misuse of a recognizable brand on the Internet (distribution of counterfeit products, gray and black imports, fraud) and "black PR." The main danger of such threats lies in the combination of direct financial losses of the company and a decrease in the "reputation value" of the attacked brand.