How one of India’s largest IT services firms safeguards its global footprint with Hunto AI Takedowns
Industry
IT Services and Consulting
Employees
80,000+
Product used
Hunto AI Takedown Service (part of Attack Surface Monitoring)
Location
Delivery centers across India, North America, Europe
About Client
This firm runs mission-critical technology programs for Fortune 500 enterprises across banking, manufacturing, energy, retail, and communications. Its public footprint spans corporate and country sites, large hiring and campus programs, partner and vendor portals, developer docs, event microsites, and a wide social presence. The sheer reach and brand equity make it a recurring target for impersonation and fraud that ride on its name to phish candidates, vendors, and even client stakeholders.
India’s largest e-commerce player operates a nationwide marketplace spanning electronics, fashion, home, grocery, and more. With peak season campaigns, high-velocity flash sales, and a vast third-party seller network, the company runs one of the country’s most visible consumer brands.
That visibility attracts fraudsters who spin up look-alike domains, fake apps, social imposters, and search ads designed to divert payments and harvest customer data, directly impacting trust, support load, and revenue.
Challenges faced
High-frequency impersonation across many surfaces
Fraudsters spun up look-alike domains, fake social handles, counterfeit job posts, and event microsites that spoofed recruitment drives, vendor onboarding, invoice change notices, and “priority IT support” for clients.
Hijacked brand queries
Malicious paid search placements and SEO-poisoned pages occasionally outranked official results for high-intent queries such as careers login, RFP portal, vendor registration, and country helpdesk.
Fragmented takedown processes
Every platform required different evidence, notice formats, and policy hooks. Evidence lived in screenshots and long email threads. Mirrors resurfaced after single URL removals.
Candidate and vendor harm
Scams demanded “processing fees,” KYC documents, or bank details from job seekers and small suppliers. Brand teams and HR faced spikes in complaints with no single place to point people to verified channels.
Board-level visibility
Leadership and risk committees asked for measurable reduction, time-to-takedown, and an evidence archive that could stand up to internal audit and client assurance reviews.
Hunto AI Solution
Objective: remove impersonation infrastructure quickly across domains, social platforms, job boards, ads, and messaging, while producing evidence that legal teams, platforms, and client auditors accept.
Always-on brand monitoring
Look-alike domain hunting using fuzzy match, homograph checks, passive DNS, and page similarity to catch new registrations early
Social, job-board, and messaging sweeps to detect imposter HR profiles, fake listings, and fee-collection sites
Search and ads watchlists to flag malicious paid placements and SEO traps intercepting branded queries around hiring seasons, quarterly results, and event spikes
Agentic takedown execution with evidence
Auto-assembled evidence packs per incident: screenshots, WHOIS and ASN, hosting metadata, time-stamped crawls, link graphs, and platform-policy citations
Platform-native notices to registrars, hosts, social networks, job boards, ad networks, and app stores to raise first-notice acceptance
Post-removal re-scans to map mirrors and connected infrastructure so clusters were suppressed, not just single URLs
Stakeholder safety and communications
A paste-ready Official Channels micro-page listed verified URLs, app IDs, and social handles and explained how to report suspicious content
Short scripts for HR, TA (talent acquisition), Corporate Communications, Legal, and Vendor Management standardized replies, verification steps, and escalation paths
Reporting and governance
Executive dashboard showed detections, median Time to Takedown, first-notice acceptance rate, scam survival time, and directional trust-protection proxies tied to hiring and vendor-portal traffic
Monthly evidence archives packaged all case files for audit and client security questionnaires, with vendor/partner labels when third parties hosted public assets
Impact
“We turned brand abuse from an inbox fire drill into an operating metric. Fraud pages vanish faster, candidates and vendors get clear guidance, and we have a defensible evidence trail.”
Head of Corporate Communications and Risk, global IT services firm (name withheld, partner engagement)
Measured outcomes in the first 120 days suitable for publication
Scale handled
- 480+ abusive assets detected across domains, social, job boards, and search ads
- About 81 percent removed on first notice; most remaining cleared after a single follow-up
Velocity improved
- Median Time to Takedown under 24 hours for registrar and hosting cases
- Median Time to Takedown under 12 hours for social and job-board listings after evidence submission
- Malicious search ads reported within 2 to 6 hours of first appearance during hiring and event spikes
Candidate and vendor protection
- Noticeable drop in scam-related complaints after the Official Channels page and scripts went live
- Reduction in repeat investigations due to standard evidence packs and closure templates
Assurance and sales enablement
- Faster responses to client questionnaires and internal audits using month-end evidence exports
- Clearer ownership and oversight for vendor-managed public assets in partner reviews
Why Hunto AI worked for this bank
Breadth with proof
One console spanned domains, social, job boards, search ads, and messaging. Each takedown shipped with the precise artifacts platforms ask for, lifting first-notice acceptance and shrinking cycle time.Lean-team friendly
Automation handled discovery, evidence assembly, submissions, and mirror hunts. Business teams reused consistent scripts and an Official Channels snippet across the .com, country sites, and recruiting pages.Audit-ready from day one
Time-stamped case files and month-over-month trendlines enabled quick briefings to risk committees, legal, and key clients without recreating history from email threads.
About Hunto AI
Hunto AI quantifies external cyber and brand risk and resolves it automatically. The Takedown Service within Attack Surface Monitoring pairs real-world detection with one-click, evidence-rich removals. Adjacent modules include Brand Monitoring at scale and Human Risk phishing simulations, creating a closed loop from signal to fix to proof.
Note: Client identity and certain metrics are anonymized due to confidentiality commitments.
Protect customers and brand trust while staying audit ready.
Request a no integration Brand Abuse Snapshot and receive an evidence ready takedown pack plus a 30 day suppression plan aligned to RBI expectations.