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Why Social Media is Increasingly Abused for Phishing Attacks

  Today, social media is a daily medium for communication for much of the modern world, and adoption only continues to grow. Because of this, much like how threat actors started to target mobile users, they have begun to abuse social media, too. While marketing teams have been known to monitor social media to protect their brand and communicate on their behalf, they are not...
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The Rise in Mobile Phishing Attacks

  Each year new phishing techniques result in more attacks successfully landing in user inboxes. In most cases, threat actors are no different than anyone else, and follow the hottest trends in an effort to be more relevant. During tax season they may push out tax scams, during elections they may push bogus political-inspired healthcare emails, and there are even Game of...
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BankBot Anubis Still a Threat, Gets Upgrade

  Over the past few years mobile banking trojans have been a persistent threat. While Windows desktops and laptops once made up the lion's share of Internet traffic, mobile devices (particularly Android) have long since become the most common means of browsing the web. With banking trojans now incorporating such a wide range of malicious functionality, it's hardly surprising...
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How To Tackle the Hidden Threat of Social Media

  As a marketer I am all too familiar with how social media can benefit or damage a brand. On the one hand, social media offers an easy and (sometimes) free way to communicate with customers, prospects, and partners that many brands have used to great advantage. But on the other hand, it's yet another source of potential threats to an organization's infrastructure and...