Security Tales: Social Network Attack
Vladimir Bezmaly | 20.12.2021
- Petrovich, will you be able to speak to our employees?
- About what?
- What do you mean about what? As if you know anything else. About information security for users. And you can choose the topic yourself.
- Okay, I'll tell them a few stories from life. Maybe they'll learn something.
Petrovich was invited to give a lecture.
— Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen! I have come without a prepared presentation and will try to simply answer your questions. To begin with, I suggest we talk about what you post on social networks.
- What's there? Who went where, who knows iceland mobile database to cook, who's sick...
- You are right. But the problem is that you do not understand how this information can be used to attack you.
- Who needs us?
— A standard question. I certainly don’t need them. So, let’s continue. At the end of autumn, a young man named Sergey fell ill with coronavirus. Having learned about the positive test, the young man decided to share a screenshot of it on Instagram. He accompanied the post with the hashtags: “quarantine”, “covid19”.
The next day he received a call from an unknown number. Sergey thought it was a doctor and did not hang up. He heard noise in the receiver, as if from a call center. The caller introduced himself as a police officer in the field of economic crimes. He said that the previous evening a woman tried to withdraw money from a bank branch with a power of attorney in his name. Allegedly, she relied on the fact that Sergey was sick with COVID-19 and could not do it on his own. Sergey lied that he did not have a card from this bank. After which he heard short beeps.