US Air Force published a notice that includes a paragraph on the use of social media platforms for computer network exploitation. Large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments and intelligence agencies. Social media platforms reveals enormous potentiality that could be exploited also in critical sectors such as military and defense. Foreign governments regularly use social networks to conduct cyber attacks against DoD, attackers adopt social engineering techniques to gather sensitive information. The impact is serious, leak of knowledge of the cyber threats could cause mission degradation or even loss of life.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/14436/intelligence/us-af-notice-military-use-social-media.html