What Are Social Engineering Attacks?
What are Different Types of Social Engineering Attacks?
Phishing
Phishing is one of the most common types of social engineering attacks black hats use to trick people into revealing personal information. In this method, you will receive text messages, notifications, and emails, as a trusted form of information. Emails will ask you to submit your bank details and reply back to the bank in order to confirm their security. Spear phishing is the best example of this type of attack. Spear phishing targets a single person within the company by sending an email from a fake higher-level company official. It asks for bank details and confidential information for various types of security purposes. The victim mistook this to be true and disclosed all the information to the allegedly higher-level management official. But by the time the victim comes to realize his mistake it is too late.