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Web3 Domains

Urgent CISO Mandate: Secure Your Brand’s Web3 Digital Real Estate Before the Impersonators Set Up Shop.

The shift to decentralized naming systems like .eth and .crypto has opened a volatile, unmonitored liability on your External Attack Surface. Malicious actors are engaged in a Web3 digital land grab, registering brand-mimicking domains for sophisticated phishing and financial fraud, creating a massive, quantifiable gap in your Digital Risk Protection (DRP) strategy. The ThreatNG Web3 Domain Discovery and Identification module, integrated into our DNS Intelligence platform, provides the only way to proactively secure this new digital real estate, turning unquantified exposure into definitive, actionable intelligence.

Shift From Anxiety to Assurance: Guaranteeing an 'A' in Brand Damage Susceptibility

Stop letting unknown Web3 risks dictate your security posture. Don't wait for a devastating low D- or F-rating on Brand Damage Susceptibility to signal you've been impersonated on a .eth domain. Our module continuously monitors and reports on available and taken domains, directly feeding into your Security Ratings to give you quantifiable assurance. This isn't just discovery; it’s the certainty that your proactive measures are reflected in a secure 'A' rating, validating your security leadership to the board.

Outmaneuver the Adversary: Be the Hero Who Averts the Next BEC/Phishing Crisis

The difference between a financial disaster and a testament to your leadership is preemptive intelligence. Attackers rely on your lack of visibility to launch phishing campaigns from lookalike domains like [ClientName]-official.crypto. ThreatNG gives you the capability to identify that malicious domain as "Taken/High Risk" instantly, allowing you to deploy mitigation before the first fraudulent transaction occurs, directly lowering your BEC & Phishing Susceptibility and proving your proactive security leadership.

Extend Your Diligence: Close the Perimeter Gap Your Legacy Tools Miss

Validate: Your team has diligently implemented strong perimeter defenses, such as DMARC and SPF—critical steps for email authenticity. Challenge: What good is perfect diligence on legacy TLDs if your brand identity is left completely unsecured on the next generation of the internet? ThreatNG integrates Web3 risk alongside sophisticated Domain Name Permutations, ensuring your diligence is complete. We position you ahead of the curve, securing your full external perimeter where competitors remain blind. This is the strategic advantage you need.

The New Digital Blind Spot: Secure Your Brand's Future on the Unmonitored Web3 Frontier

External Attack Surface Management (EASM)

Close the Blind Spot: Extend EASM Coverage to the Unmonitored Web3 Frontier

While most EASM tools remain fixated on the legacy web, attackers recognize decentralized domains as a low-cost, high-impact vector for initial access and brand fraud. Your competitors are exposed on this emerging attack surface, but you don't have to be. ThreatNG ensures you are ahead of the curve by integrating Web3 Domain Discovery into a unified EASM view, delivering truly comprehensive, end-to-end security that leaves no digital real estate unsecured.

Guaranteed 100% Perimeter Discovery: This module enables purely external unauthenticated discovery across the full scope of your digital footprint, including new .eth and .crypto Top-Level Domains (TLDs). By adopting the adversary's view, we eliminate blind spots, ensuring your Cyber Risk Exposure rating accounts for 100% of your attack surface, not just the 99% defined by the legacy internet.
Unified Domain Intelligence Strategy: Avoid managing Web3 risk in a silo. We incorporate decentralized domain checks into our sophisticated Domain Name Permutations engine. This means all forms of cybersquatting—from classic TLD swaps to new .eth impersonations—are managed under a single, consistent DRP policy, simplifying your EASM workflow.
Active Asset Securing and Prioritization: The module identifies available Web3 domains, empowering your team to proactively secure (register) them before a hostile actor can claim them. For already-taken domains, it immediately flags them as high-priority EASM findings, prioritizing investigation and rapid mitigation through the Reconnaissance Hub.

Digital Risk Protection (DRP)

Stop Narrative Risk at the Source: Proactive DRP for Decentralized Brand Threats

In today’s volatile landscape, unmonitored brand exposure on Web3 domains creates profound uncertainty, threatening rapid and irreversible erosion of digital equity. Don't wait for a crisis to define your posture. The ThreatNG Web3 Domain Discovery and Identification module delivers quantifiable assurance, allowing security leadership to feel secure knowing their DRP program holistically addresses brand and phishing threats on the new decentralized frontier.

Immediate Brand Impersonation Signal: The module’s core function is to detect already-taken, brand-related Web3 domains, which serve as an immediate, high-priority signal of active impersonation or phishing schemes that could cause catastrophic Brand Damage. These findings feed directly into your DRP monitoring, enabling rapid, preemptive communication and mitigation strategies.
Preemptive Financial and Data Loss Aversion: Decentralized phishing is designed for high-fidelity credential and financial fraud. By identifying and neutralizing the infrastructure (the fraudulent Web3 domain) before the attack scales, you prevent economic losses and data compromise, significantly mitigating your organization's BEC & Phishing Susceptibility rating.
Future-Proofing Your DRP Investment: Integrating .eth and .crypto domain checks validates your investment in the ThreatNG platform, which is inherently designed to adapt rapidly to emerging threats. Your DRP policy remains relevant and complete, providing continuous coverage as the digital landscape evolves.

Security Ratings

The Only Tool That Guarantees a Ratings Uplift: Turning Web3 Exposure into Quantifiable Security

Every security leader is measured by their Security Ratings. Unsecured Web3 assets act as a guaranteed drag on your risk score, risking a costly, professionally damaging F-rating in key categories. You don't want to lose control of your narrative due to an unknown, unmonitored attack vector. ThreatNG converts your proactive Web3 defense into a measurable score, linking investment directly to a verifiable Security Ratings Improvement.

Directly Elevate Your Brand Damage Rating: The module’s ability to secure available brand domains and identify existing impersonation risks immediately mitigates your greatest reputational vulnerability. These findings are directly weighted and prioritized to drive a favorable movement in your Brand Damage Susceptibility Security Rating (A-F), targeting a secure 'A' score.
Improve BEC & Phishing Susceptibility Score: By discovering and flagging malicious Web3 domains used for credential theft and fraud, this capability actively addresses a significant component of your BEC & Phishing Susceptibility rating. Translating this proactive defense into a better score provides concrete justification for strategic security spending.
Executive Reporting and Budget Justification: The A-F rating system is the executive language of risk. By showing the board that the ThreatNG platform is addressing the newest, most complex threat vectors (Web3) and resulting in a quantifiable uplift in critical security scores, you proactively justify budget and strategic direction without needing to reference technical minutiae.

Brand Protection

Stop the Web3 Land Grab: Secure Your Digital Identity Portfolio Before Extortion Takes Over

The Web3 land grab is happening right now, with cybersquatters claiming brand-related .eth and .crypto domains that are finite and absolute—first-come, first-served. You don't want to lose control of your brand’s future identity, forcing you to pay extortionate sums later in legal fees or settlement payments to hostile actors to recover what could be secured today. ThreatNG ensures preemptive protection of your most valuable intangible asset: your brand identity.

Mandatory Preemptive Registration Guidance: The module proactively queries and identifies high-value, brand-related decentralized domains that are currently available. This intelligence enables your organization to execute proactive asset securing by registering those domains immediately, preventing unauthorized brand impersonation and securing future digital equity.
Active Brand Impersonation Detection: By identifying domains already registered to your brand, ThreatNG provides immediate warning of active phishing or squatting schemes, allowing you to launch mitigation strategies and legal action faster than traditional brand monitoring services.
Comprehensive Digital Identity Defense: We provide a unified defense against domain manipulation across all environments—from complex TLD-swaps and traditional typosquatting to the new decentralized naming systems. This guarantees a seamless Brand Protection policy that covers the entire spectrum of domain threats.

Cloud and SaaS Exposure Management

Your Cloud Credentials are the Target: Defending SaaS Access from the Web3 Phishing Vector

Validate: You've invested heavily in securing your sanctioned Cloud and SaaS services, managing access and limiting exposure across critical platforms like AWS and Salesforce. Challenge: But what good is perfect internal cloud protection if the external phishing infrastructure—the fraudulent Web3 domain—is left unsecured, ripe for stealing credentials that grant access to those very same services? ThreatNG closes this external access gap.

Eliminate the External Credential Theft Vector: Web3 phishing domains are designed to appear legitimate and steal credentials that grant access to your organization's Cloud and SaaS implementations. This module pre-emptively identifies and mitigates the external attack infrastructure used for these campaigns, protecting against unauthorized access that would escalate your Data Leak Susceptibility rating.
Link Decentralized Risks to Cloud Assets: The module helps analysts cross-reference malicious Web3 domains with your overall attack surface inventory, identifying if a domain is hosting content that references exposed Cloud Exposure assets (such as open cloud buckets) or Externally Identifiable SaaS applications.
Ensure Complete External Defense: Web3 risk is an essential extension of external Cloud and SaaS Exposure management. By monitoring this new domain class, your organization demonstrates that its control plane is fully aware of all domain-based phishing and impersonation risks that could compromise cloud resources.

Third Party Risk Management (TPRM)

Minimize Supply Chain Phishing: Assess Vendor Diligence on the Unsecured Web3 Frontier

The greatest threat to your organization is often lateral: a supply chain phishing campaign originating from a vendor's compromised digital identity. You are not secure if your vendors are exposed. ThreatNG gives you the strategic TPRM advantage by enforcing comprehensive Vendor Digital Diligence on their Web3 presence, ensuring their lack of monitoring doesn't become your next major incident.

Assess Vendor Web3 Diligence: ThreatNG enables you to assess the Web3 domain security posture of your critical vendors, a crucial component of their overall Supply Chain and Third-Party Exposure Security Rating. Unsecured Web3 domains (available or taken by attackers) indicate negligence that significantly increases your risk.
Mitigate Supply Chain Phishing Originating from Third Parties: Use the module to identify if any of your key third-party vendors have high-risk, impersonating .eth or .crypto domains registered against their brand. This preempts a high-fidelity vector used in supply chain BEC or phishing attacks targeting your employees and partners.
Incorporate Web3 into Vendor Due Diligence: Provide comprehensive third-party reports detailing the vendor's digital identity portfolio, and ensure the Domain Name Permutation assessment you conduct includes the new decentralized TLDs. This raises the standard for vendor security validation.

Due Diligence (M&A, Vetting)

Due Diligence Deep Dive: Uncover Hidden Web3 Liabilities Before the M&A Deal Closes

In Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), the most significant risk is the hidden liability—the financial, legal, and reputational time bomb you inherit after the acquisition. You don't want to lose millions on the clean-up of a target company whose brand was actively hijacked on .eth domains before the deal closed. ThreatNG provides the necessary external, unauthenticated discovery to reveal the true cost of Web3 exposure in due diligence.

Identify Hidden Web3 Financial Liabilities: Proactively assess whether the target company has failed to secure its key brand assets on decentralized TLDs, thereby exposing high-cost legal liabilities before the acquisition. The presence of already-taken, malicious Web3 domains is an immediate indicator of a required, post-merger cleanup budget.
Obtain a Quantified Risk Snapshot: The module provides a clear, objective Security Ratings assessment (A-F) of the target entity’s Brand Damage Susceptibility and BEC & Phishing Susceptibility based on their Web3 domain exposure. This quantified risk metric is essential for deal valuation and legal risk allocation.
Verify Complete Digital Identity Portfolio: Conduct a full external check of the target’s digital presence, ensuring their Domain Intelligence profile encompasses both classical TLDs and all emerging decentralized domains. This verifies that the asset portfolio being acquired is complete and defensible from a future brand identity standpoint.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): ThreatNG Web3 Domain Discovery and Identification Module

Defining the New Digital Risk Landscape

The Web3 Domain Discovery and Identification module is a crucial expansion of your External Attack Surface Management (EASM) and Digital Risk Protection (DRP) capabilities. It is seamlessly integrated within the DNS Intelligence module of the broader Domain Intelligence Investigation Module. Its core function is to proactively check the availability and status of brand-related decentralized Web3 domains, specifically those using extensions like .eth and .crypto. This ensures you have comprehensive visibility across the entire digital perimeter, including the new decentralized frontier.
This capability is a strategic imperative because unmonitored Web3 assets represent a significant, unquantified fiduciary risk that directly impacts your organizational Security Ratings. The problem is that decentralized domains are first-come, first-served.
- Impact on Security Ratings: The discovery of unauthorized or exposed Web3 domains immediately feeds into and negatively impacts your Brand Damage Susceptibility and BEC & Phishing Susceptibility ratings (A-F).
- Shift to Feelings: By implementing this module, you move from the uncertainty of exposure to the quantifiable assurance required by the board, helping to solidify a high, defensible 'A' score for brand protection.
The singular, most critical problem solved is the rapid and irreversible erosion of brand trust and digital equity resulting from decentralized, unauthorized brand impersonation. Malicious actors use brand-mimicking decentralized domains (e.g., [ClientName]-finance.crypto) as high-fidelity attack infrastructure, bypassing traditional centralized defenses. This module pre-emptively counters this threat, acting as reputational insurance before a critical brand name is hijacked for phishing or financial fraud.

Solution Architecture and Strategic Value

Yes, the process aligns with ThreatNG’s EASM methodology by utilizing purely external unauthenticated discovery. We view your external attack surface exactly as an adversary would.
The module provides a dual defense outcome:
1. Securing Presence: It identifies available brand-related domains and advises the organization on immediate registration, thus ensuring your digital real estate.
2. Detecting Active Risk: It identifies already-taken domains, generating an immediate, high-priority signal of potential, active brand impersonation or phishing schemes that require rapid mitigation.
While your existing tools may provide strong coverage for classical TLDs and sophisticated Domain Name Permutations (like vowel-swaps, substitutions, and hyphenations) , they are often blind to decentralized systems. ThreatNG’s Web3 module integrates this new class of TLDs (.eth, .crypto) into the existing, proven DNS Intelligence framework. This ensures that your diligence extends to the latest generation of the internet, creating an "Us vs. Them" advantage by proactively addressing attacker pivots that your competitors may miss.
Delaying action results in Loss Aversion. The Web3 domain land grab is a first-come, first-served scenario; these assets are finite. Every moment of delay is a window of opportunity for an attacker to claim a piece of your brand’s future digital identity. The cost of preemptive intelligence today is minimal compared to the extortionate, high cost of legal action, dispute resolution, or recovery if a hostile actor claims your domain first.
The module seamlessly integrates Web3 findings into your established strategic reporting and investigation processes:
- Prioritized Reporting: Findings appear immediately in Prioritized Reports (High, Medium, Low) and the crucial Security Ratings Report.
- Threat Intelligence: The discovery of a malicious taken domain immediately enriches your overall threat intelligence, enhancing your personalized BEC & Phishing Susceptibility rating.
- Actionable Intelligence: Data regarding malicious taken domains is made actionable through the Reconnaissance Hub’s Advanced Search feature, allowing security analysts to conduct detailed, entity-specific investigations into the impersonating actors.
This is an opportunity to apply the Validate, Then Challenge technique. While your strong implementation of DMARC and SPF (which ThreatNG's Domain Record Analysis identifies as a positive security indicator) demonstrates exemplary diligence, "what good is perfect email protection if your brand's entire Web3 identity is left unsecured, ripe for phishing on a new, untraceable Web3 domain?" This module is required to extend that diligence to secure 100% of your perimeter and prevent a massive, high-profile Brand Damage liability.