SOCIAL MEDIA PHISHING

Social media phishing is a type of fraud in which users receive an enticing invitation to click on an infected link or provide personal information. While the primary attack vector for “regular” phishing is through email, social media phishing, is – you guess it – primarily perpetrated through social media sites.

Phishing has been around for a long time and despite a greater knowledge about the types of scams available, it still continues to prove one of the most successful ways to con people out of money or trick them into disclosing personal information.

Cyber criminals are continually adapting and tweaking their scams to reach as wide an audience as possible and one of the most successful places to do this is on social media.

There are over 3 billion social network users around the world, and this massive global audience provides the crooks with a rich hunting ground for attacks.

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