Windscribe VPN CEO warns your favourite Facebook quizzes are actually stealing your bank details
- Windscribe CEO warns social media quizzes can harvest data to bypass knowledge-based authentication
- The 'fun' prompts often perfectly mirror bank security questions
- Experts advise users to treat them as a second password by lying
We've all seen them pop up on our feeds: "What's your 90s sitcom character?" or "Discover your stripper name!" But while these social media quizzes might seem like a bit of harmless fun, they are actually acting as a massive phishing net.
That's the warning from Yegor Sak, the founder of one of the best VPN providers, Windscribe. According to Sak, these viral personality tests are carefully crafted to harvest the exact answers that financial institutions use to verify your identity.
By wrapping standard bank security questions, like your mother's maiden name, your first pet, or the street you grew up on, into a gamified social media post, attackers are tricking users into willingly handing...
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