Exposure to your Feelings or Emotions can Harm you!
Social Engineering Attack — Hacking of Human Mind
Your uncontrolled emotions can put you in big trouble! Now a question might come to your mind HOW and WHY?
The majority of people on social media share their feelings and emotions through their posts without having any knowledge that their posts can be used against them.
Identity theft or Hackers use your publicly available data on your social media profile to know about you and your stuff which can help them to make a highly sophisticated attack on you or one of your connections.
Explanation through giving scenario:
Let me give you a scenario to explain how a person, having malicious intent toward you, can harm you through your feelings.
Let’s suppose you are working in an organization in a lower position and you have some anger toward them and you are trying to achieve success quickly. These emotions can be exploited by the malicious person and that person can use you for his malicious purpose against your organization. After using you, there are higher chances that he can put all the allegations on you. This is just a small example to make you understand how your exposure to emotions or feelings can harm you.
Watch the below video from the series named Mr. Robot in which a black hoody guy(Elliot) infiltrates an organization successfully but the next step is getting rid of the chubby old man(Bill). Now you can see how he will exploit Bill’s feelings to get rid of him through the information he gathered about Bill.
Click here to watch on YouTube: This Is Why Bill Is The Perfect Exploit | Mr. Robot
This is called the “Hacking of Human Mind” in the field of Social Engineering.
Your mind can be controlled through your data just like things you like, dislike, or have fear or attraction toward something.
In this digital world, DATA is GOLD because the above reason that your data can explain what you are and how anyone can trap you with a highly planned social engineering attack.
As many peoples know, the personal info of the people was even gathered in past to make any campaign successful.
My main goal is to give you the awareness that you should try to share only the information which is highly needed to share, excess information can harm your life.
Strong and brave peoples never show their emotions or weaknesses. Even a trusted person can become your enemy in the future who can exploit you through your feelings or emotions.
Stay tuned, for more informative articles in the future.
