Advanced social engineering attacks

By Katharina Krombholz, Heidelinde Hobel, Markus Huber, E. Weippl. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2015

553 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems, Signal Processing

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Citations in the corpus

• Privacy in the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare (2018, background): “As mentioned above, an adversary often uses social engineering methods to collect victims’ relevant birthdays, and hobbies, on social networking sites [11].”
• A Comprehensive Review of Cyber Security Vulnerabilities, Threats, Attacks, and Solutions (2023, methodology): “In summary, social engineering is manipulating people to permit them to access or disclose information or data [89 Social engineering, like most cyber attacks, aims to bypass the security measures of a person or organization.”
• Social Engineering Attacks: A Survey (2019, background): “Diversion Theft attacks: consist of misdirecting a transport company to deliver a courier or package to the desired location.”
• Opt out of privacy or "go home": understanding reluctant privacy behaviours through the FoMO-centric design paradigm (2019, background): “Information harvested from social media is particularly suited to automated social engineering attacks as it is easy to process [42].”