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How to find social media threats to your brand with CompassDRP

In today’s hyperconnected world, a single misleading LinkedIn or X post gone viral can cause problems for the most well established brand in a matter of minutes. Digital Risk Protection plays a vital role in uncovering and neutralizing these hidden dangers before they escalate. We’ll run through some real-world examples with Outpost24’s CompassDRP solution to show how you can proactively monitor for social media threats before they damage your brand.

Why Peekviewer Might Be Your New Favorite Instagram Tool

Nowadays, Instagram is known not only as a photo-sharing app but a global hub for trends, branding, and real-time storytelling. Staying ahead on Instagram means more than just posting regularly - it requires smart tools to navigate, analyze, and explore content efficiently.

CompassDRP Social Media integration: Six real-world use cases

Social media can work both for and against an organization, so it’s worth treating these sites as extensions of your attack surface. CompassDRP’s Social Media integration continuously monitors both corporate and employee profiles across platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. It automatically flags unauthorized or impersonating accounts that mimic executive identities or misuse company branding, helping to thwart phishing and fraud campaigns before they gain traction.

Behind the Private Wall: The Psychology of Private Instagram Accounts

We live online. Not just on the internet, but in it. We post our meals, moods, vacations, thoughts, birthdays, workouts, breakups, and random shower thoughts. Somewhere along the way, sharing became the default. Oversharing - even more so. But something's shifted. These days, more and more people are hitting "Private". Not just celebrities or influencers dodging stalkers - regular people too. Students. Creatives. Teens. Even your super-social cousin who used to post every five seconds.

Impersonating Meta, Powered by AppSheet: A Rising Phishing Campaign Exploits Trusted Platforms to Evade Detection

Since March 2025, the KnowBe4 Threat Labs team has observed a surge in phishing attacks that exploit Google’s AppSheet platform to launch a highly targeted, sophisticated campaign impersonating social media platform giant Meta.

Attackers Abuse TikTok and Instagram APIs

It must be the season for API security incidents. Hot on the heels of a developer leaking an API key for private Tesla and SpaceX LLMs, researchers have now discovered a set of tools for validating account information via API abuse, leveraging undocumented TikTok and Instagram APIs. The tools, and assumed exploitation, involve malicious Python packages - checker-SaGaF, stein lurks, and inner core - uploaded to PyPI.

From Facebook Ad to Near Breach: The Power of Threat Hunting in Modern MDR

While security professionals know well that a defense-in-depth strategy is crucial to proper cybersecurity, sometimes a detailed story of how a threat was discovered and eradicated can bring the value home, especially to the uninitiated. This is one such story. In this case, the story relates to the value of employing a cybersecurity threat hunting service alongside a managed detection and response offering.

Introducing Social Media and Data Leakage to Outpost24's EASM platform

Digital Risk Protection (DRP) lets organizations proactively identify and mitigate external threats that emerge from their digital footprints. This can span public sources as well as deep and dark web channels. DRP is a key element of Outpost24’s external attack surface management (EASM) platform, so we’re pleased to announce two new integrations have been added: Social Media and Data Leakage. These new DRP modules will help cybersecurity teams to.