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Dramatic Increase Detected in Impersonation Attacks on Social Media

Impersonations of brands and executives on social media have grown more than 300% and 250% year-over-year, respectively, according to the Agari and PhishLabs Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence Report.

Fake Mobile Apps Leave Users Vulnerable, Damage Brands

Cloned and spoofed mobile applications can damage a brand’s reputation and compromise user data.

3 Strategies to Enhance Brand Threat Intelligence

In order to protect their organizations, security teams should prioritize efforts to proactively detect brand abuse.

What is Digital Brand Protection?

Digital brand protection is defined as comprehensive intelligence sourcing and mitigation into external threats targeting your brand.

Easy to Deceive, Difficult to Detect, Impersonation Dominates Attacks

Impersonation is a highly effective tactic for threat actors because it piggybacks on the credibility of a brand to legitimize a malicious objective. As a result, it is one of the most common components of a cyber attack.