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Email Threat Intelligence — Domain Abuse Monitoring

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Your Domain Is Used Against You.

Email Threat Intelligence monitors how your domain is being weaponised in the wild — phishing campaigns, spoofing attacks, lookalike domains, and business email compromise attempts targeting your customers, partners, and employees. Real-time alerts give you the window to act before damage is done.

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Threat Intelligence Capabilities

Your Domain Is a Target.
Email Threat Intelligence Is Your Early Warning System.

Attackers do not need access to your email infrastructure to send email as your domain. They just need to know your domain name. Email Threat Intelligence monitors the public email ecosystem for evidence that your domain, brand, or executive names are being used in attacks — and alerts you before your customers, partners, or employees are harmed.

01

Domain Spoofing Detection

Monitor DMARC forensic reports, SMTP trap networks, and third-party threat intelligence feeds for emails sent using your exact domain in the From: address without authentication. Every spoofed email using yourbrand.com is logged with source IP, recipient address, subject line, and timestamp — giving you a complete picture of active spoofing campaigns.

Exact domain spoofing monitoringDMARC forensic report integrationSMTP trap network integrationSource IP attribution
02

Lookalike Domain Monitoring

Attackers often register domains that look like yours — yourbr4nd.com, migomai1.com, yourbrand-secure.com, yourbrand.net — to send phishing emails that bypass DMARC (since they are different domains). Migomail monitors newly registered domains globally for variations of your brand name using typosquatting algorithms, homograph detection, and TLD permutation scanning.

Typosquatting detectionHomograph/Unicode domain alertsTLD permutation monitoringDaily new registration scanning
03

Executive Name Spoofing

Business email compromise attacks frequently use your executive names in the display name field while sending from a different address — "John Smith, CEO ". This bypasses DMARC entirely since the From: header domain is different. Migomail monitors for your registered executive names appearing in suspicious sender display names across external threat intelligence sources.

Display name spoofing detectionExecutive name monitoringC-suite impersonation alertsThird-party threat feed correlation
04

Phishing Campaign Detection

Detect active phishing campaigns using your brand — landing pages impersonating your login portal, credential harvesting forms using your logo, SMS phishing (smishing) messages impersonating your company, and email campaigns targeting your customer base using your brand assets.

Phishing URL detectionCredential harvesting page alertsBrand logo impersonation monitoringMulti-channel attack correlation
05

Real-Time Alerting & Triage

Every detected threat event triggers an alert within 5 minutes — delivered via email, Slack, or webhook to your security team. Alerts are pre-classified by attack type and severity, with the specific evidence (detected domain, attack method, target population, estimated campaign scope) included in the notification body.

Sub-5-minute alert latencySeverity pre-classificationSlack and webhook deliveryFull evidence in alert body
06

Threat Intelligence Reports

Weekly threat intelligence digest showing all detected threats against your domain, trend data (are attacks increasing or decreasing), new lookalike domains registered, executive targeting patterns, and comparative data showing how your exposure compares to industry peers. Monthly executive briefing format available for board and CISO reporting.

Weekly threat digestMonthly CISO briefing formatTrend and pattern analysisIndustry comparison data
07

Takedown Support & Guidance

When a lookalike domain or phishing page is confirmed, Migomail provides takedown request templates for ICANN registrar abuse reports, hosting provider abuse contact information, and coordination with threat intelligence sharing communities (ISACs) to accelerate the takedown process. Takedown status is tracked in the dashboard.

Registrar abuse request templatesHosting provider contact databaseISAC reporting coordinationTakedown status tracking
08

DMARC + Intelligence Integration

Email Threat Intelligence is most powerful when combined with Hosted DMARC. DMARC forensic reports feed directly into the threat intelligence layer — so the same attack that appears in your DMARC forensic data is automatically correlated with lookalike domain registrations, external phishing URLs, and historical attack patterns from the same threat actor infrastructure.

DMARC forensic report integrationCross-signal threat correlationThreat actor infrastructure trackingCombined risk scoring
Live Threat Intelligence Feed

Every Threat Against Your Domain —
Classified, Scored, and Actioned in Real Time

The threat feed aggregates signals from DMARC forensic reports, lookalike domain registrations, phishing URL databases, and SMTP trap networks — correlating them into actionable threat events with severity scoring and recommended responses.

Threat Intelligence Feed — yourbrand.com
Live
3
Critical Threats
7
High Severity
12
Under Watch
31
Contained (30d)
Severity
Threat Event
Detected
Status
Action
Critical
BEC Campaign — CEO Impersonation
47 emails sent using ceo@yourbrand.com targeting finance team · Tor exit nodes
08:14 today
Active
Escalate DMARC → p=reject
Critical
Lookalike Domain Registered
yourbrand-secure.com registered via NameCheap · MX records already set up
06:32 today
Active
File takedown request
Critical
Phishing Page Live
Credential harvesting page at yourbrand-secure.com/login — your logo, login form
06:45 today
Investigating
Report to hosting provider
High
Display Name Spoofing
"Sarah Chen, CFO" display name used from external Gmail addresses
2 hrs ago
Investigating
Brief CFO + IT security
High
Typosquatting Domain Active
yourbr4nd.com sending email · no DMARC · MX points to bulletproof host
1 day ago
Investigating
File ICANN abuse report
Medium
New Lookalike Domain Registered
yourbrandmail.com registered — no email activity yet · monitoring
2 days ago
Investigating
Monitor · register defensively
Medium
Spoofing Attempt — Low Volume
12 emails from 91.x.x.x using yourbrand.com · already quarantined by DMARC
3 days ago
Contained
DMARC quarantine active
Attack Type Breakdown
Domain Spoofing
38%
Lookalike Domains
29%
BEC / Display Name
21%
Phishing Pages
12%
Most Targeted Addresses
cfo@yourclient.com
47 hits
ceo@yourbrand.com
31 hits
finance@partner.com
18 hits
accounts@vendor.com
12 hits
Attack Origin (Last 30 Days)
🇷🇺 Russia / Eastern Europe 38%
🌐 Tor / VPN (anonymous) 29%
🇨🇳 China 18%
🇳🇬 Nigeria / West Africa 15%
How Attackers Abuse Your Domain

Four Attack Vectors — Each Requiring
a Different Detection Method

Not all domain abuse looks the same. Attackers use different techniques depending on whether they have DMARC to contend with, how targeted the attack is, and whether they prioritise volume or evasion. Migomail monitors for all four.

Exact Domain Spoofing
Using your real domain in the From: header
Example attack headers
From:
ceo@yourbrand.com
Source IP
185.220.101.47 (not your server)
DKIM
absent
SPF
hardfail
DMARC
fail → quarantine/reject
How Migomail detects it
DMARC forensic reports (RUF) capture each failing email
Source IP logged, geolocated, and threat-scored
Alert fires within 5 minutes of first detection
Severity escalates if volume exceeds threshold
Why it is dangerous
Most convincing to recipients — your real domain
Stopped by DMARC at p=reject (not p=none/quarantine)
DMARC forensic data reveals scale and targeting
Lookalike Domain Attack
Registering domains that impersonate yours
Example attack headers
Domain
yourbrand-secure.com
Variation
Suffix addition (-secure, -mail)
DMARC
Not applicable — different domain
Registration
NameCheap · 06:32 today
Status
MX records active
How Migomail detects it
Daily scan of new domain registrations globally
Typosquatting algorithm + homograph detection
TLD permutation scanning (yourbrand.net, .co, etc.)
Alert on registration — before email activity begins
Why it is dangerous
Bypasses your DMARC — different domain
Can appear convincing in mobile email clients
Takedown possible but requires time — early alert is critical
Display Name Spoofing
Using exec names with a different sender address
Example attack headers
Display
Sarah Chen, CFO <yourbrand.com>
Actual From
sarah.chen.cfo.yourbrand@gmail.com
DMARC
Pass (different domain — not your domain)
Target
finance@vendor.com — vendor invoice fraud
Subject
Re: Invoice approval — urgent
How Migomail detects it
Executive name monitoring in third-party threat feeds
Suspicious display name patterns flagged
Correlation with known BEC sender infrastructure
Alert to HR/security when pattern matches exec names
Why it is dangerous
Completely bypasses DMARC — not your domain
Very effective against busy finance and procurement teams
Low technical barrier — no infrastructure needed
Phishing Page Impersonation
Fake login pages using your brand and logo
Example attack headers
URL
yourbrand-secure.com/login
Content
Cloned login page with your logo
Goal
Credential harvesting
Distribution
Email campaign from lookalike domain
Hosting
Bulletproof hosting provider
How Migomail detects it
URL scanning of phishing database feeds (SURBL, PhishTank)
Visual similarity detection for cloned pages
Brand logo hash matching on external domains
Alert includes hosting provider abuse contact
Why it is dangerous
Captures actual credentials of customers or employees
Often combined with lookalike domain for full attack chain
Fast takedown is critical — active page causes immediate harm
Real Attack Campaign Timeline

From Domain Registration to Takedown —
How a Full Attack Unfolds

This is a reconstructed timeline of a real attack campaign targeting a Migomail customer in 2024. Email Threat Intelligence detected the lookalike domain 11 hours before the first phishing email was sent — providing the window to take defensive action before any customers were targeted.

Day 0 — 06:32
Lookalike Domain Registered
yourbrand-secure.com registered via NameCheap with a privacy-protected WHOIS. Migomail's daily domain registration scan detects the registration within 6 hours.
Alert: New lookalike domain detected Registrar: NameCheap · Registration location: Russia MX records: not yet configured
Day 0 — 18:15
Attack Infrastructure Activated
MX records added to yourbrand-secure.com pointing to a bulletproof hosting provider in Eastern Europe. Phishing page deployed at /login. Migomail detects MX record activation and phishing URL appearance in PhishTank feed.
Alert escalated: MX records active on lookalike domain Phishing page detected at yourbrand-secure.com/login Cloned login page — your company logo and colours
Day 1 — 08:14
Phishing Campaign Launched
Bulk phishing campaign sent from yourbrand-secure.com targeting 340 of the customer's business contacts. DMARC forensic reports from the customer's domain are unaffected (different domain) but phishing page is live and active.
47 contacts clicked the link within first 2 hours 23 credentials captured before page was taken down Customer notified — passwords forced reset for affected users
Day 1 — 11:30
Takedown Initiated
Migomail provides takedown request template for NameCheap abuse team and hosting provider. ICANN abuse report filed. PhishTank and SURBL listings accelerate browser warning display.
NameCheap abuse report filed — domain suspended within 4 hours Hosting provider suspended phishing page — 2 hours after report Google Safe Browsing warning activated within 6 hours
Day 1 — 15:45
Campaign Contained
Domain suspended. Phishing page offline. Browser warnings active. Affected credentials reset. Post-incident analysis report generated showing full campaign scope, affected contacts, and timeline.
Total time from registration to takedown: 33 hours Time saved by early Migomail alert: estimated 11+ hours Full incident report generated for security records
How It Works

From Brand Registration
to 24/7 Threat Monitoring in 24 Hours

01
Brand Profile Setup
Register your brand assets with Migomail — your primary domain, additional domains, executive names, and brand identifiers. The profile guides what Migomail monitors for across all threat intelligence sources.
02
Monitoring Activated
Migomail activates monitoring across all channels: daily domain registration scans, continuous DMARC forensic report analysis, phishing URL database checks, and display name threat feed integration.
03
Threat Detected
A threat signal is detected — a lookalike domain registration, a DMARC forensic report spike, a phishing URL match, or an executive name appearing in a threat feed. The signal is cross-correlated across all available data sources.
04
Alert Fired
Within 5 minutes of threat classification, an alert is delivered to your configured channels (email, Slack, webhook) with full threat details, severity classification, evidence, and recommended immediate action.
05
Response & Track
Act on the alert using Migomail's provided resources (takedown templates, abuse contacts). Track the takedown status in the dashboard. The incident is logged for the weekly threat digest and monthly CISO report.
Why Brand Protection Matters

The Cost of a Phishing Campaign
Using Your Domain Is Not Hypothetical

For every organisation that has experienced a phishing campaign targeting their brand, the costs go far beyond the immediate incident. These are the documented downstream impacts on email programme performance and brand trust.

−34%
Inbox Placement Drop
Average inbox placement drop in the 30 days following a major phishing campaign using a domain — as Google and Yahoo lower sender reputation based on spam reports from recipients of the spoofed emails.
−18%
Email Open Rate Impact
Average decline in email open rates in the 60 days following a phishing incident — as recipients become conditioned to distrust emails from the brand domain after exposure to convincing spoofed emails.
6–8 weeks
Reputation Recovery Time
Average time for sender reputation to recover after a phishing campaign using your domain — assuming DMARC is escalated to p=reject and the attack is stopped. Without p=reject, recovery may not occur at all.
$4.9M
Average BEC Loss
Average financial loss per successful Business Email Compromise attack (FBI IC3 2023 report). Domain spoofing and lookalike domains are the primary delivery mechanism for BEC attacks.
73%
Customer Trust Impact
Percentage of customers who say they would stop doing business with a company after falling victim to a phishing email purportedly sent by that company (Proofpoint State of the Phish 2023).
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Detection vs. Days
Migomail's average time to detect a new lookalike domain registration or spoofing campaign — compared to the industry average of 72+ hours before organisations become aware of active phishing using their brand.
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Threat Alert Time
4 Vectors
Attack Methods Monitored
24/7
Continuous Coverage
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What Security Teams Say

From CISOs and Brand Protection
Teams Using Migomail Threat Intelligence

★★★★★
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Migomail detected a lookalike domain (our brand name with -payments appended) 14 hours before the first phishing email was sent from it. That 14-hour window was enough for us to contact NameCheap abuse, get the domain suspended, and brief our finance team to ignore any emails coming from that domain. We also registered six defensive domain variants the same day. By the time the attackers were ready to start their campaign, their domain was already down. Without the early alert, we would have found out when customers started calling.

Dhruv Kapoor
Head of Security, Fintech Scale-up
★★★★★
“

We had been at DMARC p=reject for 8 months and felt confident our domain was protected. Then Migomail flagged something we had never considered: our CFO was being impersonated via display name spoofing from a Gmail address. The emails said "Pooja Mehta, CFO" in the display name but the actual sender address was a Google account the attacker controlled. DMARC at p=reject is irrelevant for this attack — it does not involve our domain at all. The attacker was sending from Gmail to our vendors requesting urgent payment changes. Migomail detected the pattern through executive name monitoring in threat intelligence feeds and alerted us. We found 12 vendor contacts who had received these emails over 3 weeks. Three had responded. One had already updated bank details in their system before the fraud team caught it. The early alert from Migomail meant we were able to contain it before money moved. Without the alert, we would never have known until a vendor called about a missing payment.

Sanjana Krishnaswamy
CISO, Manufacturing Group
★★★★★
“

The weekly threat digest has become a regular input to our board security report. Before Migomail, we had no visibility into how our brand was being used by attackers. We were essentially flying blind on everything that happened outside our own email infrastructure. The digest gives us a clear picture every week: how many new lookalike domains were registered, whether any phishing pages using our brand are currently active, and what our threat trend looks like compared to the previous quarter. Our board now understands the external threat landscape for our email domain in a way they never did before. That visibility has been as valuable as the alerts themselves.

Vinoth Rajendran
IT Security Director, Logistics Company

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Email Threat Intelligence and domain abuse monitoring.

  • What is Email Threat Intelligence and how is it different from DMARC?

    DMARC is a technical standard that controls what happens to emails sent using your domain — it rejects or quarantines unauthenticated emails. Email Threat Intelligence is a monitoring service that watches the wider email ecosystem for attacks involving your brand — including attacks that DMARC cannot stop, such as lookalike domain registrations, display name spoofing from different domains, and phishing pages impersonating your login portal. DMARC protects your domain. Email Threat Intelligence protects your brand.

  • Does DMARC at p=reject protect against all phishing using my brand?

    No. DMARC at p=reject prevents emails from being sent using your exact domain without authentication — that is its scope. It does nothing to prevent: (1) emails sent from lookalike domains (yourbrand-secure.com is a different domain), (2) display name spoofing where your executive names are used from a Gmail or Outlook address, or (3) phishing websites that impersonate your login page. These three attack vectors account for the majority of brand-impersonation fraud and require dedicated threat intelligence monitoring.

  • What is a lookalike domain and how quickly are they detected?

    A lookalike domain is a domain name that visually resembles yours — yourbrand-secure.com, yourbr4nd.com (with a number replacing a letter), yourbrand.net (different TLD), or yourbrandmail.com (with a word appended). Attackers register these to send phishing email that bypasses your DMARC because it is a different domain. Migomail scans new domain registrations globally using typosquatting algorithms and permutation scanning — most lookalike domains are detected within 6–12 hours of registration, often before the attacker configures email sending infrastructure.

  • What is display name spoofing and can it be stopped technically?

    Display name spoofing occurs when an attacker puts your CEO's name in the email display name field but sends from a completely different address — for example, "John Smith, CEO" appearing in the inbox but the actual sending address being johnsmithceo@gmail.com. Recipients who only see the display name (common on mobile) are deceived into thinking the email is from your CEO. There is no technical standard that prevents this — it cannot be stopped by DMARC, SPF, or DKIM because those standards apply to the sending domain (gmail.com in this case, which is legitimately authenticated). The only defence is monitoring for your executive names appearing in threat feeds and alerting.

  • What takedown support does Migomail provide for lookalike domains and phishing pages?

    Migomail provides: (1) Registrar abuse report templates pre-filled with the detected domain details, including the specific registrar and their abuse contact information; (2) Hosting provider abuse contact database for phishing page takedown requests; (3) Pre-formatted reports for phishing databases (PhishTank, SURBL, Google Safe Browsing) to accelerate browser warning activation; (4) ISAC (Information Sharing and Analysis Center) reporting coordination where relevant. Takedown timelines vary by registrar — NameCheap and GoDaddy typically act within 4–8 hours; some registrars take 24–48 hours.

  • How does the executive name monitoring work?

    Migomail maintains a registry of your executive names (CEO, CFO, CISO, etc.) and monitors external threat intelligence feeds for these names appearing in suspicious sender display name patterns. This includes direct threat feeds from email security providers, incident reports shared through ISACs, and analysis of DMARC forensic reports from your own domain that may show attackers testing different display name formats. When an executive name pattern is detected in a threat context, an alert fires with the source address and known targeting pattern.

  • Can Email Threat Intelligence be used without Hosted DMARC?

    Yes — Email Threat Intelligence is a standalone service. However, the combination of Hosted DMARC and Email Threat Intelligence provides substantially more comprehensive coverage. Hosted DMARC generates forensic reports (RUF) that feed directly into the threat intelligence layer, providing ground-truth data on exact-domain spoofing that supplements the external intelligence feeds. Standalone Email Threat Intelligence still covers lookalike domains, display name spoofing, and phishing pages — but does not have per-email forensic data on exact-domain spoofing without the DMARC forensic report integration.