Microsoft Reports That Malware Attacks on Social Networking are Mounting

Microsoft released a report for social media users about the mounting threat of malware attacks occurring on popular social networking platforms. The warning was announced via Microsoft’s new Microsoft Security Intelligence Report. In the report, it states cyber criminals have slowly branched out into two camps.

The first class of cyber criminals use advanced techniques such as social engineering and rare malware exploits to attack large organizations or individuals. The second class uses widely known cyber attacks like clickjacking and phishing to attack a wider user base on social networking platforms, which means anyone or everyone.