Title: What are the most common social engineering techniques?
Headings: What are the most common social engineering techniques?
What are the most common social engineering techniques?
What is Social Engineering?
What Isn’t Social Engineering?
Breaking down the techniques used in Social Engineering Attacks
Mass Phishing
Targeted Phishing
Cyber-Assisted Fraud
Invoice Fraud
Baiting (mostly Trojan)
Malicious Email Attachment Attacks
Vishing
Social Media Attacks
Fake news/Market Manipulation/Political Sabotage
Social Engineering Isn’t Going Anywhere
Joey Tanny

Content: From creating urgency with (often faked) blackmail, social proof through sending emails out through a hacked email account, authority by spoofing a recognized brand, consistency by winding a long and persistent tale in a Nigerian Prince or Romance Scam and so on. Targeted Phishing
An increasingly common means of social engineered attacks, targeted phishing can yield very high returns for con-artists. Generally, targeted phishing will involve a criminal researching a target at great lengths to be able to find details to exploit. The primary difference between bulk and targeted phishing is how personalized the content of the email campaign is. There are two areas of targeted phishing we see a lot of lately: Cyber-Assisted Fraud
This term applies to a fraud that starts as a phishing attack to gain trust, access, or data, and then continues to an offline fraud. A common form of this is Business Email Compromise or CEO Fraud, where executives are impersonated or targeted to transfer money believing that the
Invoice Fraud
These (targeted or not) can trick a recipient into believing there’s an outstanding invoice, and immediate payment is required. A tactic commonly used in these attacks is gaining access to a potential victim’s email address. The criminal can forward all emails to his own account waiting until an important deal or transaction is supposed to go through. At that point, he or she will send across an email with instructions to modify payment details (for examples) or even call to limit the trail.