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 ...
Recent social engineering attacks carried out on Twitter involved celebrities like Elon Musk and Bill Gates appearing to tweet out offers to give away thousands of dollars in Bitcoin... if followers only gave them $1,000. If celebrities promising to give away thousands of dollars in Bitcoin ...
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Social engineering has become a bread-and-butter tactic for cybercriminals with recentreportsfinding a staggering 464% increase in email-based attacks in the first half of this year compared to 2022. Further, when considering such attacks per organization within the same time frame,researchers note ...
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 ...
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...
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...
In Section 4, we describe advanced social engineering attacks in online social networks, cloud services and mobile applications. Before concluding our work in Section 6, we discuss recent real-world social engineering attacks in Section 5. Access through your organization Check access to the full ...
Social engineering attacks leverage human interaction and emotions to manipulate the target. Learn what social engineering is, its techniques, examples and how to protect against it.
Pervasive social engineering attacks are hindering the world’s coordinated response to the COVID-19 emergency. As noted in this recent press report, cyberattacks have spiked during the first half of 2020. The FBI noted that as of May 28, it had received nearly the same number of complaints...