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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Threat actors are on every platform you are—so whatever device you’re using, keep an eye out and protect yourself.

Things you might spot in a #smishing text ⬇️

✅ Sketchy phone number: Pretty sure the USPS isn’t sending out texts from the Philippines

✅ Unclickable links: On the off chance it actually was the USPS, they’d send a link you can click without basically having to solve a riddle

Here’s an example of VPN compromise 👇

✅ It’s a super common technique we see all the time
✅ Effects businesses of every size
✅ Usually caused by a simple configuration mistake, like an account without MFA enabled

Yet it can often lead to network-wide compromise 😟