When you share your birthday publicly, it brings some risks for you, and you might become a victim of a phishing attack. I am sure you are so happy when you see the wall of congratulations on your Meta, Twitter, or Linkedin feeds. The attacker has bad intentions. Their motivation in this case is to make you click on a link that could do a few things: To lead you to a page where you could enter even more information for you to help them execute more time consuming attacks later such as identity theft or a social engineering attack.
You Share Your Birthday Online with Well-Wishers and Phishers
Source: Trends Pinoy
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