Summary

In this chapter, we learned a lot about the SET framework, from its importance to all cybersecurity experts to its importance in developing and maintaining a strong cybersecurity strategy.

Then, we started getting deeper into the framework itself by learning how to install it, configure it, and execute it.

Once we learned the basics of the installation, we did a deep dive into the framework and all its modules to learn the plurality of tools offered in this framework.

After that, we also covered how to navigate through the tool and how to access its different modules, including a module to execute a spear-phishing attack that includes a malicious payload and a module to craft several web-based social engineering attacks.

In the end, we closed the chapter by explaining a set of best practices aimed at preventing advanced social engineering attacks performed with technical tools such as the SET framework.

In the upcoming chapter, we will take a deep dive into the...