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Social engineering through social networking

Attackers usually attempt to create a fake profile and establish communication with people. They pretend to be someone else while trying to trick a victim into revealing sensitive details about themselves. Additionally, there are many cases where a person's account is compromised and the attackers use the compromised account to communicate with the people in the victim's friend/connection list.

Attacks often use compromised social networking user accounts to create a very large network of friends/connections to gather information and sensitive details.

The following are some methods that are used to lure the employees of a target organization:

• Creating a fake user group
• Using a false identity ...