PhishLabs is a cybersecurity analysis firm that focuses on providing awareness regarding threats and bad actors. The firm achieves this via multiple different ways. It publishes research articles on popular cybersecurity threats and common habits indulged in by perpetrators.
Cybersecurity threats are regular, constantly heard about, and they cause far too much damage that can often be irreparable as well. In our current day and age, all important information is stored online. Credit card details, personal addresses, phone numbers, even social security numbers constitute just some of the important information and data that we leave online in our wake. Protecting it is of the utmost importance, and that is exactly the sort of work that PhishLabs helps its customers and users out with.
Jumping off of phishing affecting social media, the report displays that cybersecurity threats across social media as a whole have grown by a whopping 82% from January of this year. Such platforms and the industry remain a focal point for cybersecurity threats, and are often the originating point for many attacks. Social media is a service that hosts literal billions of individuals, and cyber criminals are very likely to (intentionally) run into individuals that are slightly unaware of, and thus more susceptible to, threats and bad actors. Phishing attacks also continue to be flexible as ever. While compromised websites still remain the most popular form of threat actors, emails, URL shortners, social media messages, and free hosting services are also gaining traction, and even managing to find larger and larger audiences.
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