Digital Services
MNC Catches Impersonator in Action With Payatu's CTI
At a glance
INDUSTRY
Digital Services
CLIENT PROFILE
The digital arm of a pioneering Indian multinational corporation
SERVICES
Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), Brand Monitoring, Dark Web Monitoring, Domain Monitoring, Social Media Monitoring
ENGAGEMENT
Ongoing Cyber Threat Intelligence partnership
Key Takeaways
Client – The digital arm of a pioneering Indian MNC, built to help businesses digitize and serve customers across multiple touchpoints.
Problem – As a fast-growing digital business, the client needed to proactively watch for threat actors targeting its brand, domains, and online presence before they could cause damage.
What Payatu did – Payatu became the client's Cyber Threat Intelligence partner, delivering social media, brand, repository, dark web, domain, IOC, and CVE monitoring across 7 service categories.
Outcome – Payatu independently identified an impersonator domain built to pass as the client's real website, letting the client act before its brand name and customer trust were damaged.
the challenge
Why the client called us in
The client is the digital arm of a well-known Indian MNC, built to help other businesses digitize as smartphone adoption and digital services grew. The new entity had quickly built a presence across many digital touchpoints, which made it a target for threat actors looking to impersonate the brand or exploit its growth. The client wanted a partner to proactively watch for these threats rather than react after the damage was done, and brought in Payatu as its ongoing CTI partner.
- Get continuous visibility into brand, domain, and social media impersonation attempts
- Monitor the dark web for any mention or leak involving the client
- Receive timely intelligence on relevant vulnerabilities, malware, and APT activity
scope of engagement
What was in scope
- Collecting data available on the internet involving the client
- Monitoring the dark web for any mention of the client
- Periodic monitoring of the client's domains
- Periodic monitoring of the client's social media
- Brand monitoring
- Alerts on new vulnerabilities relevant to the client's threat landscape
- Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
- Updates on active malware families and APT groups
Our Approach
How Payatu ran the engagement
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Key findings
What we found
the outcome
Results and Impact
Despite restrictions on information sharing and a compressed timeline, Payatu built the client a working CTI program from the ground up and caught a live impersonation attempt before it could cause reputational or financial harm.
Caught a website impersonating the client before customers could be defrauded
Stood up monitoring across 7 CTI categories, from social media to CVEs
Delivered current, daily, and weekly intelligence on a fixed reporting cadence
Protected the client's brand name and customer trust during a high-growth phase
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