Smishing & Executive Impersonation

Stay One Step Ahead of Breaches With Phishing and Content Protection

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Smishing and executive impersonation attacks are low-cost and highly effective for threat actors. All they need is access to your company’s organizational structure, which they can easily find on LinkedIn or via other tools, and employee cell phone numbers, which have almost inevitably been leaked as part of a data breach.

Lookout smishing and executive impersonation protection provides proactive security against this widespread threat to every organization.

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Stay one step ahead of modern tactics.

As the traditional cyber kill chain evolves, threat actors rely on social engineering to trick employees into wiring money or sharing sensitive information such as login credentials. Lookout protects your employees and your data by:

Providing industry-first protection against mobile executive impersonation attacks.

Proactively diverting and alerting on SMS, MMS, and RCS messages containing malicious links.

Reporting in real-time to help admins identify when their organization is under attack.

Looking for specific key strings in messages to protect employee privacy.

Industry-first visibility and reporting.

Smishing and executive impersonation attacks happen across every industry, organization, and geography. However, IT and Security teams haven’t had a way to gain actionable insights into where they’re coming from, their frequency, or who is targeted most often.

In addition to protecting against these attacks, Lookout provides industry-first visibility and reporting on the occurrence, frequency, and details that teams need –– both in the Lookout console and other security tools.

In-console reporting.

In-depth reporting helps admins understand when a coordinated attack is targeting their organization. Details such as the identity of the sender, the phishing URL if one is used, the device ID, and more paint the complete picture of the incident.

Integration with security and ticketing systems.

Stream these event details into data aggregation and event management tools such as SIEM, SOAR, and XDR to give your security team even more event details for their operations.

End-user education.

Provide custom messaging to your end users so they understand what to look for after receiving an alert for a smishing or executive impersonation attack.

Balancing security and privacy.

Lookout only observes messages from unknown senders, links in messages to see if they’re malicious, and specific executives’ names to help identify if the message is malicious or benign.

Integration with security and ticketing system

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Use case

Protect employees from day one.

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Threat actors most commonly use executive impersonation to target new employees just as they start their jobs. Stop attackers in their tracks before they can prey on an employee’s lack of familiarity and desire to make a good first impression.

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Use case

Identify early stages of coordinated attacks.

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Spikes in smishing or executive impersonation usually indicate a threat actor targeting your organization. Immediately flag targeted employee accounts, notify your employees of the ongoing attack, and audit other associated activity to ensure your data is safe.

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