{"id":24887,"date":"2015-10-09T21:01:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=24887"},"modified":"2022-07-15T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T09:24:16","slug":"social-media-hackers-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/social-media-hackers-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Love Your Social Media Shares. Here&#8217;s Why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media has become an indispensable part of our modern lives. You are most likely more connected to more online social circles now than ever before. The problem here is that you love to share, perhaps even a little too much. Yes, we were taught that sharing is caring, but <strong>oversharing will lead to privacy and security breaches<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have been warning about the risks of this exaggerated information broadcasting for years. There are countless stories about how Facebook activity, for example, has <strong>caused major upheaval and destruction to people\u2019s lives<\/strong> from <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/depressed-woman-loses-benefits-over-facebook-photos-1.861843\">losing employee benefits<\/a> (due to beach photos shared on Facebook), to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/archive\/weinergate-social-media-job-loss\">losing jobs<\/a> (for a variety of reasons).<\/p>\n<p>But the threats from social media <strong>aren\u2019t limited to just bosses, potential employers and insurance companies<\/strong>. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/facebook-account-security\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Hackers also prey on social media pages<\/a> and use the information they find there for their own benefit. Below we discuss <strong>some of the data that hackers are after, and what they do once they have it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"ref-block ref-block--post\" id=\"ref-post-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/keeping-online-data-safe\/\" class=\"ref-block__link\" title=\"Read More: How You Are Helping Hackers Steal Your Data\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How You Are Helping Hackers Steal Your Data<\/span><\/a>\n<div class=\"ref-block__thumbnail img-thumb img-thumb--jumbo\" data-img='{ \"src\" : \"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/keeping-online-data-safe.jpg\" }'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<noscript>\n<style>.no-js #ref-block-post-16782 .ref-block__thumbnail { background-image: url(\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/keeping-online-data-safe.jpg\"); }<\/style>\n<\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"ref-block__summary\">\n<h4 class=\"ref-title\">How You Are Helping Hackers Steal Your Data<\/h4>\n<p class=\"ref-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn how to keep your online data safe with these tips and tricks. Protect your personal information from...\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Read more<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Finding Your Authentication Information<\/h2>\n<p>When you sign up to receive services from banks, telecom companies and government agencies (among others), you need to authenticate your identity. Online, this is done by providing a <strong>username and password<\/strong>, or sometimes a <strong>one-time code<\/strong> that is sent via text message to the user\u2019s mobile device.<\/p>\n<p>On the phone, users generally authenticate their identity by <strong>answering personal questions<\/strong>. In the United States, authentication questions usually include the customer\u2019s Social Security Number, date of birth, and mother\u2019s maiden name, but may also include the name of your first pet, the elementary school you attended, or any other random information.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/social-media-hackers-paradise\/birthday.jpg\" alt=\"birthday\" width=\"1280\" height=\"851\"><\/figure>\n<p>How hard do you think it is for hackers to come up with this sort of information about you? Well, when you\u2019re constantly plastering pictures, dating statuses and your plans for your kids\u2019 next birthday party on your social media pages (not to mention explicitly sharing your date of birth), you\u2019re basically <strong>handing over your personal data directly to hackers <\/strong>on a silver platter.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe at least your mother\u2019s maiden name will remain private, right? Probably not. If you connect with family members online, <strong>the information on mom\u2019s profile page is there for all to see<\/strong>. Figuring out that Karen is your mom\u2019s middle name doesn\u2019t even need serious hacking skills.<\/p>\n<h2>Making Educated Guesses At Your Passwords<\/h2>\n<p>Hackers may attempt to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Password_cracking\">crack your password<\/a> by <strong>systematically trying a huge number of potential passwords<\/strong> (a method known as \"<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brute-force_attack\">brute force<\/a>\") until the right one is found. This is one of the reasons why consumers are encouraged to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/change-your-passwords\/\" rel=\"noopener\">choose a sophisticated password<\/a> with lower case, upper case, numbers and special characters \u2013 to thwart such password-guessing scripts.<\/p>\n<p>To improve the chances of actually finding the right password and to reduce the number of time it takes to do so, hackers use something called a \"<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dictionary_attack\">dictionary attack<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n<p>A dictionary attack means that the script isn\u2019t guessing just all possible strings (including completely random letters), but is instead using various words from a dictionary. The attack is effective considering that most users<strong> <em>don\u2019t<\/em> choose their passwords randomly<\/strong>, but <strong>apply familiar words and names that are easy to remember<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/social-media-hackers-paradise\/smartphone.jpg\" alt=\"smartphone\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"><\/figure>\n<p>As depicted on shows like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4158110\/\"><em>Mr. Robot<\/em><\/a>, social media can <strong>help hackers collect words for their dictionaries<\/strong>. Names of pets and family members, your birthday, your kids\u2019 birthdays and your anniversary can be easily extracted from your social profiles and added to the hacker\u2019s dictionary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These personal details more often than not make their way into passwords<\/strong> making this yet another case where the hacker doesn\u2019t even really need to work very hard at all.<\/p>\n<h2>Sourcing Employee Email Addresses<\/h2>\n<p>Why stop at the mere individual when there are huge organizations just itching to be hacked?<\/p>\n<p>While hacking into an organization\u2019s internal network <strong>may require actual hacking sophistication and serious technical know-how<\/strong>, the root of the organization hacking job is not so different from the personal one: organizations and large companies also host social media pages, and <strong>they are also guilty of oversharing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most common methods used to attack organizations is to <strong>send employees emails that contain malware<\/strong>. Once the employee opens the attachment, their corporate computer gets infected by malware which opens a \"back door\" that allows the hacker to get into the organization\u2019s internal network <strong>through the infected machine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/social-media-hackers-paradise\/email-dark.jpg\" alt=\"email dark\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"><\/figure>\n<p>Naturally, <strong>some employees in the organization will be easier targets<\/strong> than others. For example, system administrators, the people who run and manage the entire IT network, will generally act as larger targets. If their computers get infected, hackers would then receive the keys to the kingdom and access the entire IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>By this point you can probably guess where the hackers begin this entire enterprise \u2013 via social media. Social networks can be used to <strong>identify the exact type of high-value employees needed for this mass infiltration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>By looking for people who <strong>hold certain positions<\/strong> in the target organization, the hacker can virtually handpick the employees that should receive the malware. Since most organizations <strong>follow a specific email address \"scheme\"<\/strong> (for example, the email address of an employee would be their first name, dot, their last name, at, the organization\u2019s domain) the hacker can deduce the employee\u2019s email address simply based on their name.<\/p>\n<p>Social media can also help hackers write the email message that they\u2019ll send to the employee with the malware. If the employee posted on their social media page that they are going to a certain conference, for example, <strong>the email message could masquerade as a message from the conference organizations<\/strong>. This way, there\u2019s a higher chance the employee would not suspect the authenticity of the attachment, and open it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ref-block ref-block--post\" id=\"ref-post-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/cyberwarfare-and-consequences\/\" class=\"ref-block__link\" title=\"Read More: How a Full-Blown Cyberwarfare Can Change the World\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How a Full-Blown Cyberwarfare Can Change the World<\/span><\/a>\n<div class=\"ref-block__thumbnail img-thumb img-thumb--jumbo\" data-img='{ \"src\" : \"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/cyberwarfare-and-consequences.jpg\" }'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<noscript>\n<style>.no-js #ref-block-post-24074 .ref-block__thumbnail { background-image: url(\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/cyberwarfare-and-consequences.jpg\"); }<\/style>\n<\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"ref-block__summary\">\n<h4 class=\"ref-title\">How a Full-Blown Cyberwarfare Can Change the World<\/h4>\n<p class=\"ref-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe internet is a beautiful thing. It has no boundaries and the only limitation it has is the...\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Read more<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Arm Yourself With Information!<\/h2>\n<p>There are many more risks posed by social media that involve a more proactive, social engineering approach by the hacker. We haven\u2019t even broached the subject of what hackers can do when they <strong>actively approach a user with a fake profile <\/strong>or fake aviator or send out <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/phishing-reports-prevention\/\" rel=\"noopener\">phishing attacks<\/a> through those platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Considering just how much social media has been embedded into your life, it would be wise to familiarize yourself with these threats. <strong>Be vigilant to what you are sharing online<\/strong> and <strong>become familiar with the consequences of such information sharing<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media has become an indispensable part of our modern lives. You are most likely more connected to more online social circles now than ever before. The problem here is that you love to share, perhaps even a little too much. Yes, we were taught that sharing is caring, but oversharing will lead to privacy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3409],"tags":[4605,4601],"topic":[4523],"class_list":["entry-content","is-maxi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.8 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hackers Love Your Social Media Shares. Here&#039;s Why. - Hongkiat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Social media has become an indispensable part of our modern lives. 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