Malicious actor: A person who, through any means, threatens or attempts to threaten the security of an individual or company for malicious purposes.Puppeteer: A person who creates sock puppet accounts for either benign or malicious purposes.More commonly known as a fake account or alternate account. Sock puppet account: An account created for a disingenuous purpose (that is, for a purpose other than what it is meant to be used for).However, this is not the only way to use a sock puppet account.įor the purposes of this discussion, the following definitions will be used: Sock puppet accounts are mainly known to those outside the information security field as accounts used for disinformation purposes, such as swaying your opinion about a topic or a product. Daniel Kats, Senior Principal Researcher for NortonLifeLock Research, held a similar view in his article, “Identifying Sockpuppet Accounts on Social Media Platforms:” “We define a sockpuppet as a fictitious online identity created for the purposes of deception.” The most common definition is found on Wikipedia’sentry: A sock puppet or sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception. When you search “sock puppet accounts” using Google, there are a few definitions that show in the search results, and they all follow a common theme. Junior at Beacom College of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Dakota State University
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