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Anatomy of an Enterprise Social Media Cyber Attack: Social Engineering

June 19, 2015 |by ZeroFox Team
Anatomy of an Enterprise Social Media Cyber Attack: Social Engineering
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    For the modern attacker, enterprise social media is a dream come true. In part 2 of our infographic series on the new breed of social cyber attack, we look in depth at a social engineering attack on a major financial institution. Would your organization detect an attack like this?

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