Continuing on my social media spam train, a study conducted by Nexgate (published today) analyzed that over 60 million pieces of social media content contained a 355% jump in social spam over the last year. 355 PERCENT! 15% of this spam contained links to pornography and malware. I wrote yesterday how astonished I was that these attacks still existed. The article did not say how many of these attacks were a success. But if the jump was 355% these attacks must have some level of success.
I just don't understand it. I guess I have more faith in human intelligence than I should. Ok, that sounded mean. What I do mean is I find it shocking how people have not been informed. The first series of this blog has been about social engineering and how users interact with these attacks. But I have to remember, I grew up with this stuff. I'm guessing some of the victims did not grow up with the internet and social media. But it's like Chris Croad said, the battle is not with the hackers, it's educating people to know what to look for.
That's all for now. I'll be back soon.
--Chris
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