https://www.zerofox.com RSS for Node Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:57:59 GMT Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:57:59 GMT Verification began in 2009 as a fix for impersonation. A platform confirmed an account was real and marked it. That is still what most people assume the badge means, and it is why a fake profile carrying your firm’s name or your CEO’s headshot gets the benefit of the doubt when it shows up in […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/understanding-verification-checkmarks https://www.zerofox.com/blog/understanding-verification-checkmarks Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:03:21 GMT Last week someone clicked an HBO Max ad on Reddit and installed an infostealer on their own machine. The ad ran through Reddit’s real ad system. Attackers had taken over the HBO Max advertising account and used it to push hundreds of legitimate-looking promos, all pointing at a page dressed up as HBO Max that […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/sandbox-verdict https://www.zerofox.com/blog/sandbox-verdict Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:50:35 GMT Pull up two external threat platform datasheets side by side and the coverage lists look nearly identical. Domains, social, dark web, app stores, paid ads, executive exposure. Every serious vendor in this category monitors all of it, which means the feature grid stops being useful about ten minutes into an evaluation. The comparison that decides […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/zerofox-vs-doppel-comparing-two-approaches-to-takedown-and-disruption https://www.zerofox.com/blog/zerofox-vs-doppel-comparing-two-approaches-to-takedown-and-disruption Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:03:16 GMT Criminals no longer need to break into your internal networks to damage your business—instead, they set up shop in third-party online spaces where your customers, partners, or employees can be easily found. Your Security Operations Center (SOC) team can work around the clock hardening servers and patching endpoints, but your stakeholders are still out there: […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/zerofox-alternatives https://www.zerofox.com/blog/zerofox-alternatives Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:12:11 GMT AI-powered brand protection is having a moment. Across the market, new platforms promise fully autonomous detection, real-time campaign clustering, and automated takedowns across domains, social media, messaging apps, and more. The pitch is compelling: faster alerts, less manual work, and AI-native defense built for modern deception. But brand monitoring and enforcement are not the same […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/brand-monitoring-and-enforcement-why-ai-alone-isnt-enough https://www.zerofox.com/blog/brand-monitoring-and-enforcement-why-ai-alone-isnt-enough Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:09:42 GMT An Afternoon in East London with a Man Who Steals through the Internet for a Living He agreed to meet on the condition that we describe neither his face nor his voice. The introduction came through a source we’ve worked with before on stories about financial crime, passed along after weeks of encrypted back-and-forth on […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/interview-with-a-phisher https://www.zerofox.com/blog/interview-with-a-phisher Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:48:24 GMT Executive travel security is the practice of protecting a named leader in transit across both digital and physical risk, from device and credential compromise to surveillance, theft, and physical harm, before, during, and after each trip. It is one part of a broader corporate travel security program. Here, we’ll focus on the executive layer. An […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/executive-travel-security https://www.zerofox.com/blog/executive-travel-security Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:02:04 GMT The best executive protection companies do more than place guards at the door. They fuse digital threat intelligence, impersonation and PII monitoring, physical security alerting, and rapid takedowns into one program that protects a named leader across both worlds. And the stakes keep rising. Executive security budgets grew 118.9% from 2021 to 2024, and 72% […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/top-5-things-to-look-for-in-an-executive-protection-solution https://www.zerofox.com/blog/top-5-things-to-look-for-in-an-executive-protection-solution Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:26:07 GMT Social media threat monitoring for executives is the continuous practice of tracking, validating, and acting on threats that target named leaders across social platforms, the open web, and the dark web, before those threats reach the physical world. It pairs automated detection at scale with human analysts who separate real danger from background noise. Today’s […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/social-media-threat-monitoring-executives https://www.zerofox.com/blog/social-media-threat-monitoring-executives Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:14:01 GMT A bodyguard protects an executive who is standing in front of them. Executive travel security protects the whole trip: the itinerary, the route, the destination, and the digital exposure that reaches an executive long before they land. Most corporate programs already have the physical piece handled. The gap tends to be intelligence, specifically the digital […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/executive-travel-security-2 https://www.zerofox.com/blog/executive-travel-security-2 Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:25:08 GMT Log into ZeroFox analytics and you’ll find dashboards waiting. But you don’t work by org chart. You work by intent: what am I trying to get done right now? That’s how the Essentials suite is built. That’s how the Essentials suite is built. Every dashboard is tagged to an intent, a job, not a department. […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/what-are-your-zerofox-essentials-dashboards-built-to-do https://www.zerofox.com/blog/what-are-your-zerofox-essentials-dashboards-built-to-do Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:47:10 GMT Somewhere on the open web today, a real financial adviser is being impersonated. She has 26 years in the industry, a clean regulatory record, a real FINRA CRD number, and a real employer. All of that information is currently being used on a website she does not own, to defraud people she has never met. […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/financial-advisers-investment-scam-bait https://www.zerofox.com/blog/financial-advisers-investment-scam-bait Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:50:15 GMT You know the metric you need for Thursday’s report. You know roughly what it’ll show. And you still can’t get to it without exporting a CSV, cleaning it up in a spreadsheet, or filing a request with whoever owns reporting and waiting your turn. By the time the answer comes back, the week has moved […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/self-service-security-analytics https://www.zerofox.com/blog/self-service-security-analytics Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:32:02 GMT We’re excited to introduce ZeroFox HNTR Executive Protection, and we can’t wait to put it in front of the teams who protect leaders.  Executives get targeted everywhere at once. Consider how a fake profile spreads on social media, a home address can go up for sale on a data broker site, or a hostile crowd […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/introducing-zerofox-hntr-executive-protection https://www.zerofox.com/blog/introducing-zerofox-hntr-executive-protection Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:59:49 GMT A deepfake of your CFO is live on Instagram, telling followers to move money into a crypto wallet. Every minute it stays up, more people see it and act on it, and the scam keeps paying out. Your team can confirm the video is fake almost immediately, but a verdict doesn’t pull it off the […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/deepfake-protection-best-practices-to-detect-and-remove-synthetic-media-threats https://www.zerofox.com/blog/deepfake-protection-best-practices-to-detect-and-remove-synthetic-media-threats Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMT Say hello to Scout AI. Your data knows which alert types spiked this week. It knows your takedown acceptance rate this quarter, and exactly why escalations jumped between two dates last month. It knows all of this, right now. It just won’t tell you without effort: write the query, pull the export, or file a […]

]]> https://www.zerofox.com/blog/meet-scout-ai-assistant-ask-your-threat-data-a-question-get-an-answer https://www.zerofox.com/blog/meet-scout-ai-assistant-ask-your-threat-data-a-question-get-an-answer Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:27:44 GMT