cyber trends
e.g. through adverts, shares, plug-ins
– than comparable sources, such
as e-commerce, digital media or
corporate websites
• Social media has fuelled a 36%
increase in the recruitment of
‘millennial money mules’ since 2016
and has increased fraud revenues by
60% since 2017
“Social media platforms have become
near ubiquitous and most corporate
employees access social media sites at
work, which exposes significant risk of
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attack to businesses, local governments
as well as individuals,” said Gregory
Webb, CEO of Bromium.
“Hackers are using social media
as a trojan horse, targeting employees
to gain a convenient backdoor to
the enterprise’s high-value assets.
Understanding this is the first step
to protecting against it, but
businesses must resist knee jerk
reactions to ban social media use –
which often has a legitimate business
function – altogether.
“Instead, organisations can reduce the
impact of social media-enabled attacks
by adopting layered defences that utilise
application isolation and containment.
“This way, social media pages with
embedded but often undetected
malicious exploits are isolated within
separate micro-virtual machines,
rendering malware infections harmless.
“Users can click links and access
untrusted social-media sites without risk
of infection.”
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