What the Twilio Breach Teaches Us About Smishing and Access to Corporate Accounts and Data

As Twilio recently learned, threat actors are able to breach internal corporate systems by stealing employee credentials through SMS phishing (smishing) attacks. Read about why smishing is successful, the importance of including smishing in security awareness, and what makes the Twilio threat actors seem more sophisticated than most financially motivated amateurs. Whether your organization uses Twilio or not, deconstructing what we know about the incident can go a long way toward protecting your employees and ultimately your organization from a similar fate.