How Scammers Use Your Emotions Against You
Farlina Said, Senior Analyst, Foreign Policy and Security Studies programme, ISIS Malaysia
20-Dec-23 17:00
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The MCMC has highlighted the dangers of "cognitive hacking", where scammers use a potential victim's fears or emotions against them. We speak to a cybersecurity expert on how to protect ourselves from cognitive hacking, and how the information we inadvertently share online could be enabling these scams.
Image Credit: Unsplash
Produced by: Wan Eizzul Islam
Presented by: Sharmilla Ganesan, Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharaad Kuttan
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Categories: technology
Tags: hacking, cybersecurity, online safety, cognitive behaviour,
