AUTHOR=Aïmeur Esma , Díaz Ferreyra Nicolás , Hage Hicham TITLE=Manipulation and Malicious Personalization: Exploring the Self-Disclosure Biases Exploited by Deceptive Attackers on Social Media JOURNAL=Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence VOLUME=2 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2019.00026 DOI=10.3389/frai.2019.00026 ISSN=2624-8212 ABSTRACT=

In the real world, the disclosure of private information to others often occurs after a trustworthy relationship has been established. Conversely, users of Social Network Sites (SNSs) like Facebook or Instagram often disclose large amounts of personal information prematurely to individuals which are not necessarily trustworthy. Such a low privacy-preserving behavior is often exploited by deceptive attackers with harmful intentions. Basically, deceivers approach their victims in online communities using incentives that motivate them to share their private information, and ultimately, their credentials. Since motivations, such as financial or social gain vary from individual to individual, deceivers must wisely choose their incentive strategy to mislead the users. Consequently, attacks are crafted to each victim based on their particular information-sharing motivations. This work analyses, through an online survey, those motivations and cognitive biases which are frequently exploited by deceptive attackers in SNSs. We propose thereafter some countermeasures for each of these biases to provide personalized privacy protection against deceivers.