Social Media Means
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Social media can give attackers a platform to impersonate trusted people and brands or the information they need carry out additional attacks, including social engineering and phishing.
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Read More »The methods used by an attacker depend on the social media platform targeted. Facebook allows users to keep their images and comments private, so an attacker will often friend a targeted user’s friends or directly send a friend request to a targeted user to access their posts. If an attacker can connect to several of the targeted user’s friends, then it’s more likely that the targeted user will accept the friend request based on the number of connected friends. LinkedIn is another common social media target. LinkedIn is known for business networking, and users’ networks are typically filled with colleagues and other employees within the same organization. If an attacker targets a business, LinkedIn is an excellent social media site to collect business emails for a phishing attack. A large enterprise could have several networked employees who list their employer and their titles. An attacker can use this public information to find several employees who have access to financial information, private customer data or high-privilege network access. Collecting information to steal data isn’t the only reason to use social media for reconnaissance. The information posted on social media could be used to obtain passwords or impersonate business users. Many online accounts allow users to reset passwords if they enter a security question. With enough information from social media posts, an attacker could guess the answer to these security questions based on the private information posted by a targeted user. Brand impersonation is another social media threat. With enough gathered information, an attacker can impersonate a business brand to trick users into sending money, divulging private information or provide an attacker with account credentials. Attackers also use this threat to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) or cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. These attacks can lead to more massive data breaches and business infrastructure compromise.
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