From: Federal Times
Last year saw an explosion in spear-phishing attempts and the use of social media as a tool for malicious activities online, according to the annual report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
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“The increased use of social media has provided a quintessential goldmine of personal data for perpetrators,” the report states. “More victims are submitting complaints documenting how social media was utilized to perpetrate frauds or indicating the perpetrator initiated a relationship through social engineering.”
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