Cybercriminals are efficient and thrive on gathering data on their targets. By combing through public employee social media profiles, they collect valuable data on a persons interests, job, activities and other history. In 2019, about half of the attacks reported by Trustwave analysts were caused by phishing or other social engineering methods, up from 33% of attacks in 2018. In some cases, threat actors may go as far as impersonating a co-worker by creating a fake social media profile.”]
Source: https://securityintelligence.com/articles/social-engineering-and-social-media-oversharing/