A new study has indicated that individuals who are very active on Facebook become highly susceptible to ‘social media phishing’ attacks by criminals.
The study observed that habitual Facebook users become suspects because they automatically respond to requests without considering how they were connected with those sending the requests, how long they have known them, or who else was connected with them.
Dr Arun Vishwanath, author of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication study, said that social media phishing was the attack vector of choice among cybercriminals and had been implicated in crimes ranging from home invasion to cyber bullying, illegal impersonation of individuals and organization, and espionage.
