SOCIAL MEDIA PROTECTION
Today, more than 4.6 billion people are on social media, representing 58.4% of the total human population. Even businesses realize social media’s massive potential, with 73% of all small businesses investing time and money on these platforms. As ingrained as these platforms are in the daily life of consumers, they’re also home to opportunistic scammers… Continue reading Top Social Media Scams to Watch Out For
June 01, 2023
7 MIN
What is Social Media Threat Monitoring? For a long time, only marketers and advertisers understood the importance of monitoring social channels. They used it to mine audience data to fuel product development and marketing campaigns. But, in the past few years, the use case for social media monitoring has evolved, becoming increasingly vital for security… Continue reading How Modern Security Teams Can Leverage Social Media Threat Monitoring
November 17, 2022
6 MIN
Elon Musk recently highlighted a big problem with Twitter: bots. We all know bots have been a significant problem on Social Media platforms. What makes bots so bad? Aside from the well-known issue of fake comments creating social toxicity and polarity, bots are also responsible for running financial scams on social media platforms. Examples include… Continue reading Elon, Bots, and Rampant Fraud on the Web
October 18, 2022
4 MIN
When more than half the world’s population uses social media, businesses need to pay more attention to this channel. 36% of these users utilize social media to discover and purchase new brands. Combined with how affordable it is to market on social media organically and using paid ads, it’s no surprise that 97% of Fortune… Continue reading Navigating the Rise of Social Media Breaches
September 22, 2022
6 MIN
How to Detect and Stop Social Media Fraud in 2023 In the online world, social media fraud happens fast. We know this to be true at Bolster through the threat intelligence our systems gather and the customers we serve. In 2020, we detected over 6.9 million phishing and scam pages, resulting in over $320 billion… Continue reading Social Media Fraud – How to Detect & Fraud on Social Media in 2023
December 07, 2021
5 MIN