Mastering the art of social engineering

Social engineering is one of the most fascinating topics in security. In fact, many experts define social engineering as an art: an art that requires a lot of social skills that enables the attackers to gain access to the victim's mind to gather personal information or even persuade the victim to perform certain actions that will benefit the attacker.

This is like hacking into the human brain to read the user's data or inject instructions for the human to perform.

As I mentioned earlier, this is a very exciting and important topic, so I will try to summarize it as much as I can.

Important note

As a professional in defensive security, you must master this topic because the better you understand how this works, the better you can defend against it.

Now, let's take a look at the attacks that are aimed to trick the user. Additionally, keep in mind that while not all authors agree on classifying these attacks as types...