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Cyber threats Case study 8 – Social engineering for the purpose of espionage These actions frequently take the form of phishing attacks or identity theft and are often aimed at social engineering, fraud or embarrassing the individual. US Admiral James Stavridis and his Facebook profile webpage © Shutterstock Social media application Facebook Social engineering attack, reportedly originating from China, harvested the details of those who accepted requests from a fake account. 48 Cyber Primer (2nd Edition)
Cyber threats Social engineering against an individual’s Facebook site Who What How Against whom Why Allegedly state-sponsored individuals from China. Social engineering. Fake Facebook account created and used to send invitations from a fake profile to colleagues in the victim’s address book. Commander, United States European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Admiral James Stavridis and those to whom the invitations were sent. The aim appears to have been to use social engineering to collect personality information on Admiral Stavridis. This information could later be processed to provide intelligence on his personality profile and exploit his contacts network. When Early 2012. Impact The wealth of personal information on Admiral Stavridis and potentially his contact network would be invaluable for personality profiling by an adversary. ‘Senior British military officers and Ministry of Defence officials are understood to have been among those who accepted “friend requests” from the bogus account for American Admiral James Stavridis. They thought they had become genuine friends of NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander – but instead every personal detail on Facebook, including private email addresses, phone numbers and pictures were able to be harvested.’ The Sunday Telegraph newspaper, 10 March 2012. More information More information can be found at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ technology/9136029/How-spies-used-Facebook-to-steal-Nato-chiefs-details. html Cyber Primer (2nd Edition) 49
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