The digital exposure of high-ranking corporate personnel through social media activity, professional profiles, and metadata represents a growing threat vector in the cybersecurity landscape.
Threat actors increasingly exploit these digital footprints to conduct targeted campaigns, such as business email compromise (BEC) scams, spear phishing, credential harvesting, and hybrid cyber-physical attacks. What begins as open-source intelligence (OSINT) gathering can quickly escalate into operationalized threats. Social engineering is one of the most effective techniques in the attacker’s toolkit because it targets human vulnerabilities.
Adversaries routinely scrape social platforms, correlate breached data, and perform targeted reconnaissance on executives and other high-value individuals. This intelligence fuels tailored attack paths that often bypass traditional security controls, putting the individual and the enterprise at risk.
