
Social engineering 🔴 Attack
Social engineering refers to the set of psychological manipulation techniques used by malicious individuals, often cybercriminals, to get people to divulge confidential information or perform actions that compromise the security of their personal data or that of their organisation.
These attacks do not directly target computer systems, but exploit human weaknesses, playing on emotions and cognitive biases such as trust (by pretending to be a trustworthy person), fear (of punishment or an urgent problem), urgency (to get a quick reaction), curiosity (with tempting lures), greed (promises of financial gain), altruism (asking for help for a cause), or ignorance.