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Social Media Industry Trends, Analysis and Benchmarks Attack Patterns Revealed | Released Q3 2025

Understand the Fraud Landscape Targeting Your Social Platform

Social media platforms face a strategic shift in attacker behavior as threats move deeper into authenticated sessions. Recent data reveals in-app threats more than doubled while SMS toll fraud surged—indicating fraudsters are pivoting from credential theft to post-authentication exploitation and verification system abuse.

This exclusive intelligence brief reveals:

  • Attack pattern shifts specific to social platforms—where account management traffic doubled while entry points declined

  • Attack mechanism evolution as bot attacks declined 29% while automation services reached equilibrium

  • Browser and device trends with Chrome capturing over 60% of attacks and stable device distribution

  • Geographic fraud hotspots with Brazil, Vietnam and Turkey leading non-U.S. attack traffic

  • Actionable security recommendations to protect authenticated sessions and verification systems

What’s Inside

Drawing from anonymized data across global social media platforms, this infobrief provides security leaders with the context needed to benchmark their defenses against current threats. See how in-app exploitation, SMS fraud resurgence and attack mechanism shifts are reshaping the social media fraud landscape—and why platforms face unique equilibrium patterns not seen in other industries.

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Understand the Fraud Landscape Targeting Your Social Platform

Social media platforms face a strategic shift in attacker behavior as threats move deeper into authenticated sessions. Recent data reveals in-app threats more than doubled while SMS toll fraud surged—indicating fraudsters are pivoting from credential theft to post-authentication exploitation and verification system abuse.

This exclusive intelligence brief reveals:

  • Attack pattern shifts specific to social platforms—where account management traffic doubled while entry points declined

  • Attack mechanism evolution as bot attacks declined 29% while automation services reached equilibrium

  • Browser and device trends with Chrome capturing over 60% of attacks and stable device distribution

  • Geographic fraud hotspots with Brazil, Vietnam and Turkey leading non-U.S. attack traffic

  • Actionable security recommendations to protect authenticated sessions and verification systems

What’s Inside

Drawing from anonymized data across global social media platforms, this infobrief provides security leaders with the context needed to benchmark their defenses against current threats. See how in-app exploitation, SMS fraud resurgence and attack mechanism shifts are reshaping the social media fraud landscape—and why platforms face unique equilibrium patterns not seen in other industries.

Fill out the form to download the infobrief today!

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