Social engineering attacks are referred to as psychological manipulation to trick users into making security mistakes or giving away sensitive information, i.e., a broad range of malicious activities accomplished through human interactions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most importantly, social engineering is especially dangerous because it relies on human error, rather than vulnerabilities in software and operating systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mistakes that are made by authorized users are less predictable and hence making them harder to thwart and identify than a malware-based intrusion. They exploit the one weakness that is found in every organization: human psychology. These attackers trick people into handing over access to the organization\u2019s sensitive information using different platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Phishing, pretexting, baiting, and tailgating is one of the most common attack types that these social engineers use to target their victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Phishing<\/strong> – Phishing is one of the most common types of social engineering attacks that occurs every day, especially during this pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Pretexting<\/strong> – Pretexting is where attackers focus on creating a good pretext, or a fabricated scenario, where they try to the victims\u2019 personal information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In such types of attacks, the scammer impersonates some organization asking for certain bits of information from their target to confirm their identity, later on, they steal that data and use it to commit impersonation, identity theft and other secondary stage attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n