Using Online Activity as Digital Fingerprints to Create a Better Spear Phisher

Explore the intricacies of digital profiling for social engineering in this Black Hat USA 2013 conference talk. Delve into how everyday online activities create digital breadcrumbs that can be exploited for targeted phishing attacks. Learn about data mining techniques and natural language processing used to analyze user interactions, vocabulary patterns, and communication habits. Discover the process of indexing unstructured content, building user relationship graphs, and adding temporal references to collected data. Gain insights into the legal and technical implications of using official APIs versus web scraping. Examine a tool that automates data mining and NLP of public information sources, comparing user-generated content against profiles based on criteria such as friend networks, communication frequency, shared interests, hobbies, travel plans, and language usage patterns.