Types of Phishing Attacks, Part 5: Baiting
Baiting is a social engineering tactic with the goal of capturing your attention. Baiting can be found in search results, social media or emails. For businesses, baiting often comes across …
Baiting is a social engineering tactic with the goal of capturing your attention. Baiting can be found in search results, social media or emails. For businesses, baiting often comes across …
The term “pretexting” indicates the practice of presenting oneself as someone else to obtain private information. Usually, attackers create a fake identity and use it to manipulate the receipt of …
A watering hole attack consists of injecting malicious code into the public web pages of a site that the targets usually visit. Once a victim visits the page on the …
“Whaling” is another evolution of phishing attacks that uses sophisticated social engineering techniques to steal confidential information, personal data, access credentials to restricted services/resources, and specifically information with relevant value …
A phishing campaign is very broad and automated, so it doesn’t take a lot of skill to execute a massive phishing campaign. Most phishing campaigns are seeking things like credit card …
Phishing is the most common social engineering attack type used today. Attackers use emails, social media, instant messaging, and text messages (a rising trend) to approach their victims. They trick …
Social Engineering is defined as follows: The art of exploiting human psychology, rather than technical hacking techniques, to gain access to buildings, systems or data. Social engineering happens in both …