The most common form of social engineering attack is
phishing
. Phishing attacks exploit human error to harvest credentials or spread malware, usually via infected email attachments or links to malicious websites.
Examples of social engineering range from
phishing attacks where victims are tricked into providing confidential information
, vishing attacks where an urgent and official sounding voice mail convinces victims to act quickly or suffer severe consequences, or physical tailgating attacks that rely on trust to gain …
According to a 2018 study,
17 percent of people fall victim to social engineering attacks
. That means that close to two out of every ten employees you have will unwittingly compromise his or her workstation, or get the entire company’s network in trouble.
Phishing attacks
are the most common type of attacks leveraging social engineering techniques. Attackers use emails, social media, instant messaging and SMS to trick victims into providing sensitive information or visiting malicious URLs in the attempt to compromise their systems.
1.
$100 Million Google and Facebook Spear Phishing Scam
. The biggest social engineering attack of all time (as far as we know) was perpetrated by Lithuanian national Evaldas Rimasauskas against two of the world’s biggest companies: Google and Facebook.
- Phishing. Phishing is the most common type of social engineering attack. …
- Spear Phishing. A social engineering technique known as Spear Phishing can be assumed as a subset of Phishing. …
- Vishing. …
- Pretexting. …
- Baiting. …
- Tailgating. …
- Quid pro quo.
- Delete any request for personal information or passwords. Nobody should be contacting you for your personal information via email unsolicitedly. …
- Reject requests for help or offers of help. …
- Set your spam filters to high. …
- Secure your devices. …
- Always be mindful of risks.
- Angler phishing. Phishing attacks carried out via spoof customer service accounts on social media. BEC (business email compromise) …
- Pharming. Redirecting web traffic from legitimate sites to malicious clones. Spear phishing. …
- Tabnabbing/reverse tabnabbing. Rewriting unattended browser tabs with malicious content.
- Phishing. Phishing is a social engineering technique in which an attacker sends fraudulent emails, claiming to be from a reputable and trusted source. …
- Vishing and Smishing. …
- Pretexting. …
- Baiting. …
- Tailgating and Piggybacking. …
- Quid Pro Quo.
Social engineering is a manipulation technique that
exploits human error to gain private information, access, or valuables
. … As such, social engineering attacks are especially useful for manipulating a user’s behavior.
The most effective countermeasure for social engineering is
employee awareness training on how to recognize social engineering schemes and how to respond appropriately
.
When a hacker pretends to be a person in authority to get a user tell them information
, it is an example of reverse social engineering.
What is the primary countermeasure to social engineering? … 1)
Educate employees on the risks and countermeasures
. 2) Publish and enforce clearly-written security policies.
Kevin David Mitnick
is a well known name in the world of security. His past includes a variety of social engineering exploits and hacks that led to the security breach of numerous Fortune 500 companies, as well as federal and state agencies.
Which is the most attacked domain?
NEW DELHI:
India
saw the highest number of domain name system or DNS attacks in 2020 with 12.13 attacks per organisation, even though the cost of attacks in the country decreased by 6.08% to ₹5.97 crores, said International Data Corporation or IDC’s DNS Threat Report.
- The feeling of urgency. The message will try to make you feel like you must act now or else. …
- The questions. …
- No proof of who they are. …
- The contact details. …
- A personal message with wrong information.
