By taking a swing at a social network account and successfully hijacking it, a cybercriminal opens the door to plenty more potential victims. Facebook is the main target in such cases because it is so good a platform for sharing information, which allows bad actors to lure a lot of users. Malware, spam and phishing links directing users to pages serving carefully planted threats are easily distributed from a stolen Facebook account. As noted by Nadezhda Demidova, Web Content Analyst at Kasp…
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