How Does Social Engineering work?
Social engineering occurs when an attacker deceives and or manipulates a user into providing confidential and personally identifiable information (PII) t he for fraudulent purposes. There are various ways that social engineer can occur. The following list the various types of forms of social engineering. Phishing is achieved by sending fraudulent emails purporting to be from a reputable company in order to induce individuals to provide credit card numbers, usernames, password, SSN and any other PII. Spear phishing is act of sending emails from a known sender for the purpose of inducing users to reveal confidential information and PII. An example of this is when, Attackers personalize an email and impersonate specific senders and use other techniques to bypass traditional email defenses. The purpose is to fool users into clicking a link or opening an attachment. The attachments usually contain malware that affects the user’s...
