Social engineering has emerged as a serious threat in virtual communities and is an effective means to attack information systems. The services used by today's knowledge workers prepare the ground for sophisticated social engineering attacks. The growing trend towards BYOD (bring your own device) pol...
Advanced social engineering attacks Combined with zero-day-exploits, they become a dangerous weapon that is often used by advanced persistent threats. This paper provides a taxonomy of well... K Krombholz,H Hobel,M Huber,... - 《Journal of Information Security & Applications》 被引量: 59...
Social engineering involves manipulating a target to make it act to achieve the attacker's objectives. Currently, direct and short-term attacks are common in the mainstream. However, with the development of science and technology, there has been a shift toward extended and long-term attacks using...
These threats are also known as Spear-Phishing Attacks. Zero-Day Exploits - Software vulnerabilities that have not been addressed with security patches. Social Engineering - Tricking victims into divulging sensitive credentials either via a telephone call or digitally (online chat, email, etc). Stage...
This often involves custom malware, zero-day exploits, and advanced social engineering tactics. Targeted attacks: APTs are usually aimed at specific organizations, industries, or countries. The attackers carefully select their targets based on strategic objectives, such as stealing intellectual property, ...
Gain access. The attacks are often initiated through social engineering techniques that identify vulnerable targets. Spear phishing emails or malware from commonly used websites are then used to gain access to credentials and the network. Attackers typically attempt to establish command and control once...
Privilege escalation can be achieved through a variety of techniques, including exploiting vulnerabilities, stealing credentials, and social engineering. Once the attacker has escalated their privileges, they can then move on to the next stage of the attack. ...
The attacks built into the toolkit are designed to be focused attacks against a person or organization used during a penetration test. Description The Social-Engineer Toolkit is an open-source penetration testing framework designed for social engineering. SET has a number of custom attack vectors ...
It typically involves an attacker deploying a range of social engineering techniques, such as whaling or spear phishing. A Remaining Advanced Persistent Threat The major danger of APT attacks is that even when they are discovered and the immediate threat appears to be gone, the hackers may have ...
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