Social engineering is of predominant concern for industries, governments and institutions due to the exploitation of their most valuable resource, their people. Social engineers prey on the psychological weaknesses of humans with sophisticated attacks, which pose serious cybersecurity threats to digital ...
Here are three high-profile cases of recent years showing that social engineering is still a potential threat, perhaps more so than ever. Even a schoolboy can hack the director of the CIA Let’s start with a story that could easily be taken for a Hollywood movie with the title, say, ...
Basic critical thinking skills are one of the best ways to prevent a social engineering attack from happening to you. Recent social engineering attacks carried out on Twitter involved celebrities likeElon Musk and Bill Gates appearing to tweet out offersto give away thousands of dollars in Bitcoin....
Social engineering tactics (e.g. phishing) often are used to pave the way forransomwareattacks. There are several types of social engineering attacks–all of which use fraudulent practices to trick the victim into divulging private information. These tactics include baiting, scareware, pretexting, ph...
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📌 Per the report by Barracuda, small businesses witness350% more social engineering attacks than larger enterprises. 📌 More than30% of small businessesin the US have weak points that threat actors can exploit. 📌 Per the recent Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, social engineerin...
just as damaging to an organization’s security. Like the Greeks who used the Trojan Horse to get inside the walls of Troy, social engineers use human mistakes to bypass technological security measures. In this article, we describe ten of the most famous social engineering attacks of recent ...
The first step in most social engineering attacks is for the attacker to perform research and reconnaissance on the target. If the target is an enterprise, for instance, the hacker may gather intelligence on the organizational structure, internal operations, common lingo used within the industry and...
Social engineering sounds like the stuff of spy movies, but it is very real-life as some recent high profile cases show. Social engineering works - it is very effective as it is a powerful psychological technique. The HP scandal that involved investigators impersonating board members, employees ...
Pretexting is a strategy that can be applied to a variety of social engineering attacks. The attacker creates a fabricated scenario (the pretext) to convince their victim to voluntarily turn over sensitive information. The goal is to gain trust by impersonating someone the victim knows or pretendin...