security How to Find Phishing Sites Based on Your Domain Name

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Dnstwist is Python script created by Marcin Ulikowski over two years ago, but is still very useful, that allows you to detect phishing, typo squatters, and attack domains that are based on an inputted domain. If you are a site owner or in charge of your company's domain management and brand safety, this tool can be of great use in seeing sites that are trying to harm others by pretending to be your brand.

While seeing a list of potential domain names is useful, it is much more useful to see a list of those domains that are actually registered. Thankfully, dnstwist contains the -r flag that causes the program to only output domains that are actually registered. By using this flag, the amount of domains based off of bleepingcomputer.com dropped from 570 down to 20, which is much more manageable...

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