To hijack a brand to deceive or divert attention; often used in abusive or fraudulent activities devised for gain at the expense of the goodwill, brand equity and customer trust of actual brand owners [..]

The sale of fake physical goods. May occur in the physical world, or on B2B exchanges, auction sites, eCommerce sites, or in spam.

The practice of abusing trademarks within the domain name system. Brand names—spelled correctly or, in a practice known as typosquatting, spelled incorrectly—are used within a domain name, enabling th [..]

A network that can only be accessed with specific software, configurations or authorization such as Tor (The Onion Router) browser. The darknet is a small subset of the deep web.

Un-indexed Web pages that cannot be accessed via a regular browser or search engine.

Occurs when an illicit site or email attachment installs malware, viruses, keyloggers or other software that automatically steals usernames, passwords and additional information without a user's [..]

Criminal use of email to divert traffic to websites in order to fraudulently acquire usernames, passwords, credit card details and other personal information. The email and websites used in these oper [..]

The sale of fake digital goods such as music, movies, software and gaming software. May occur on B2B exchanges, auction sites, eCommerce sites, in spam and through peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

The sending of unsolicited emails—frequently leveraging well-known brands—in order to divert traffic to illicit sites of every type. To encourage recipients to click through, spammers design their ema [..]

Using brand names spelled incorrectly within a domain name, which enables the squatter to divert traffic meant for a legitimate site to an illicit site which may sell counterfeit goods, utilize pay-pe [..]