2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77392-2_27
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Social Engineering Attacks: Recent Advances and Challenges

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“…• Social engineering attack: The adversary manipulates users to make security mistakes or give away sensitive information that can be used for breaching the authentication or access control mechanisms. Social engineering attacks rely on human error, such as baiting, scareware, pretexting, phishing, or spear-phishing that can be misused to attack the Edge computing paradigm [47]. These attacks can also be targeted for extracting users' sensitive data, thus, compromising their privacy.…”
Section: Software-related Attacksmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…• Social engineering attack: The adversary manipulates users to make security mistakes or give away sensitive information that can be used for breaching the authentication or access control mechanisms. Social engineering attacks rely on human error, such as baiting, scareware, pretexting, phishing, or spear-phishing that can be misused to attack the Edge computing paradigm [47]. These attacks can also be targeted for extracting users' sensitive data, thus, compromising their privacy.…”
Section: Software-related Attacksmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Also, the attackers are taking advantage of the current COVID-19 pandemic and targeting people with fake support messages or claiming to be calling from vaccination centres and gaining their sensitive information. According to a report by PurpleSec, there was a 667% increase in the spearphishing emails during Covid and Google reported in April 2020 that it has blocked 18 million daily malicious malware and phishing emails and 240 million daily spam messages related to covid (Mashtalyar et al, 2021).…”
Section: Social Engineeringmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These awareness programs can include conferences and awareness campaigns. And the training can include workshops, lectures, or virtual labs (Mashtalyar et al, 2021). And the companies should arrange a session after a couple of weeks or whenever any new attack occurs.…”
Section: Security Countermeasuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The progression of cybercrime and the development and adoption of new techniques to jeopardize sensitive information and impart damage across the Internet present an alarming threat to businesses, governments, and nations. Recent cybersecurity research (e.g., the works in [1][2][3][4][5][6]) confirms cybercriminals' determination to develop newer techniques for achieving their malicious objectives. Ransomware is just one of the methods that have been used recently by cybercriminals to achieve financial gains in return for releasing ransomware-encrypted files to their rightful owners.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 96%