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Your Profile Is a Dossier. Here's Who's Reading It.

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Your Profile Is a Dossier. Here's Who's Reading It.

Social media profiles serve as readily available sources of personal information that attackers exploit to develop targeted attack strategies. This article examines how threat actors leverage publicly visible data to construct attack playbooks and offers recommendations for limiting the information attackers can gather from your online presence.

Why it matters: All users of social media platforms face exposure to reconnaissance attacks that harvest public profile data for social engineering, credential targeting, and personalized phishing campaigns; practitioners should audit their own and their organization's public presence to reduce information available to attackers.

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