Lookout, Inc. announced new features for its Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) solution, Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security.
These advancements provide comprehensive protection against two
fast-growing advanced social engineering tactics: smishing (SMS
phishing) and executive impersonation fraud texts. With 16 years of MTD
industry leadership and the world's largest AI-driven mobile security
dataset, Lookout offers a defense-in-depth approach to cybersecurity
that is designed to protect against the modern tactics used to breach an
organization's cloud infrastructure.
Mobile devices are now the cornerstones of enterprise productivity,
collaboration, communication and cloud identity verification. But as the
initial targets in the modern kill chain,
they have also become prime targets for social engineering attacks that
trick employees into sharing login credentials or sensitive data in
cloud apps. According to the most recent Lookout Threat Landscape Report,
in Q2 2024 there was a 70% YOY increase in mobile phishing and
malicious web content and a 40.4% uptick in enterprise mobile phishing
attempts and malicious web attacks. Every day, mobile device users
encounter text messages that seem harmless at first glance-until it's
too late. A single tap by an employee can immediately compromise an
entire organization. One common executive impersonation scheme of late
is CEO fraud, a social engineering tactic where attackers impersonate
CEOs and other high-level executives via text to manipulate employees
into sharing sensitive data, divulging passwords or transferring funds.
These smishing attacks are unique because they rarely include a link -
the bad actors expect the employee to engage with them via text.
Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security: The First to Provide Proactive
Protection, Administrator Insights and In-Depth Reporting on Smishing
and Executive Impersonation Across Both iOS and Android Devices
Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security's
new Smishing and Executive Impersonation Protection features for iOS
and Android provide a critical layer to the modern defense-in-depth
security strategy with proactive protections against social engineering
and executive impersonation attacks.
The proactive design of these new features flag suspicious messages
before employees can engage with them, significantly reducing the risk
of a successful attack by the threat actor.
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Executive Impersonation Protection: Threat actors use tools such
as sales prospecting and social networking apps to gather phone numbers
and organizational structures, targeting employees with phishing texts
posing as senior executives. Lookout's Executive Impersonation
Protection proactively protects against these attacks by identifying and
blocking text messages from unknown phone numbers that do not match
those of an organization's executives.
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Advanced Smishing Protection: Lookout is the first MTD solution
that proactively and immediately notifies end users when they receive a
message that contains a malicious link on both iOS and Android. In
addition to the proactive smishing protections, Lookout will block any
URL that is tapped on in any application with its industry-leading Phishing and Content Protection - embodying the modern defense in-depth capabilities needed for today's complex threat landscape.
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Admin Visibility and Reporting: Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security
is the first MTD solution to provide timely visibility into coordinated
smishing or executive impersonation attacks as they occur, along with
reporting capabilities within the security admin's console. Watch this video for more information.
"Mobile devices play a pivotal role in the enterprise because they
enable remote access to cloud apps and data. When left vulnerable to
phishing and social engineering attacks, they expose a critical weakness
within any organization," said Mike Jude, Research Director, Endpoint
Security, IDC. "Cybersecurity has primarily focused on defense, but
there's a noticeable shift from a reactive stance to a more favorable,
proactive/offensive approach that emphasizes detection and blocking.
With Lookout's new Smishing and CEO Fraud Protection features, customers
can now proactively detect and defend against executive impersonation
and smishing attacks across all iOS or Android devices, while
administrators gain real-time visibility into targeting attempts to
safeguard data and operations."
"In recent conversations with customers and industry analysts, we've
been told that smishing and executive impersonation are two of the most
frustrating security challenges to deal with," said Firas Azmeh,
President, Mobile Endpoint Security, Lookout. "Knowing your organization
is under attack from a targeted threat is critical for today's security
teams, so by combining all three of these solutions into one release,
we're helping our customers know as soon as their employees are being
targeted en masse so they can prevent phishing incidents, mitigate
damage and protect organizational data."
Mobile Threat Defense Industry Leadership
Backed by a world-class mobile threat intelligence team, Lookout offers a
defense-in-depth approach to cybersecurity that is designed to protect
an organization's data against the Modern Kill Chain. With the largest database of threat telemetry, Lookout has a deep understanding of mobile and cloud threats.
The Lookout Security Cloud is an ever-growing AI-driven mobile dataset
of more than 220 million devices, 325 million apps and billions of web
items. The Lookout Security Cloud has identified 465 million phishing
and malicious sites since 2019. In addition, it leverages AI to analyze
data and identify malware, phishing attacks, and other sophisticated
network-based threats.
Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security is the industry's most advanced Mobile
Threat Defense solution to deliver mobile endpoint detection and
response (Mobile EDR). Lookout provides visibility into mobile threats
and state-sponsored spyware, while also protecting against mobile
phishing and credential theft that can lead to unauthorized access to
sensitive corporate data. Lookout is FedRAMP JAB P-ATO Authorized and
available through CDM DEFEND, trusted by enterprise and government
customers to protect sensitive data, enabling the workforce to connect
freely and safely from any device.