Security News > 2020 > August > Black Hat 2020: Influence Campaigns Are a Cybersecurity Problem

Social media used as a cudgel for nation-states to sway opinion is a cybersecurity threat CISOs can't ignore - and need to understand better and mitigate against.

During a keynote address at Black Hat on Thursday entitled "Hacking Public Opinion," she said threat actors are fine-tuning these attacks.

Her message to the Black Hat community is that these types of attacks can just as easily be delivered as "Reputation attacks" against businesses as they can against elections.

"This is a cybersecurity issuewe need to do more red-teaming around social and think of it as a system and how attacks can impact operations."

"The secret with social isn't ad buys and fake personas. It's people becoming the unwitting participants in these influence campaigns by spreading their messages for them," she said.

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https://threatpost.com/black-hat-hacking-public-opinion/158167/