Trend Micro Email
Security allows you to specify high profile
external domains, for example, your partners' domains or domains of famous brands,
which are
likely to be forged into cousin domains for spam, phishing, and BEC attacks, for example,
vendor frauds.
A cousin domain (or look-alike domain) is a domain that looks deceptively
similar to a legitimate target domain, which is well-known or familiar to users. Cousin
domains are often used in phishing attacks to steal sensitive or confidential information
from
users. Cousin domains are usually created by replacing one or more characters (for
example,
replacing the letter "l" with the number "1") or adding or removing an extra character
in the
domain name. Without careful inspection of the email addresses, users may not notice
the trick
and think that an email message is sent from a legitimate domain being forged.
By leveraging the Trend Micro Antispam Engine, Trend Micro Email
Security can scan domains in email messages (the from and
replyto headers) based on the settings you configure to detect cousin domains of these
high
profile domains and prevent users from spam, phishing and BEC messages.