Kanary Launches Human Attack Surface Management for X and LinkedIn

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New integrations allow you to defend against AI-accelerated threats on social media that escalate financial, physical, and reputational harm impacting you, your loved ones, and your organizations

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Kanary, the human attack surface management platform for an agentic internet, today announced integrations with X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn, enabling direct monitoring and mitigation for exposed personal data. Kanary members can now manage the doxxing, impersonation, and social engineering risks associated with maintaining personal and professional profiles on social media platforms.

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People Are the New Perimeter

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The announcement comes as threat actors increasingly treat individuals as the most accessible entry point into organizations. Every executive, employee, and contractor at an organization carries a personal attack surface made up of the sum of their publicly available, exposed, or inferable data across the internet. Social media platforms like X and LinkedIn are the entry point for attackers who are actively mapping that surface. This is where professional identities are built, maintained, and, increasingly, exploited.

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“Our integrations with X and LinkedIn give security teams the tools they need to manage the attack surface their people carry with them every day. Investing in protecting your people with a partner like Kanary significantly reduces legal risk, employee churn, and security team burn out associated with battling an infinite attack surface for hundreds of employees. In an agentic internet where AI is weaponizing personal data at machine speed, human attack surface management isn’t optional, it’s a core function of enterprise security,” said Rachel Vrabec, Founder and CEO, Kanary.

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Kanary’s Human Attack Surface Management platform is built on this understanding: protecting organizations requires protecting the people who execute the mission, and that starts with understanding what adversaries can see about those people on the open internet.

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How Bad Actors Weaponize Social Media: Social Engineering Launch Pad & Fuel

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Most of us require some form of public profile to facilitate our personal and professional lives. Bad actors capitalize on this, treating platforms like X and LinkedIn as open-source intelligence goldmines. Within the MITRE ATT&CK framework, social media platforms both accelerate and refine the reconnaissance phase. Malicious actors increasingly leverage automated technologies, including scrapers, bots, and artificial intelligence, to systematically harvest and compile personal information from public social media platforms, effectively transforming them into large-scale surveillance infrastructure that continuously monitors and profiles individuals.

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In the stealth phase, social media platforms provide limited protections against fake profiles impersonating the individuals who influence your brand’s reputation, your customers’ trust, and the market reaction. With reduction in tech regulation and deep fake tools, it’s easier than ever to launch social engineering campaigns. According to the 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the human element was a component of 68% of all data breaches. That’s not surprising when you consider that Pew Research reports that 47% of even those most confident in their online data privacy skills feel overwhelmed by the amount of work needed to maintain their online presence, and up to 84% skip reading privacy policies.