The distinguishing feature of a pretexting attack is that the scammer comes up with a story — or pretext— to fool the victim. The pretext generally aims to cast the attacker as someone in a ...
The malware will then automatically inject itself into the computer. Pretexting is the use of an interesting pretext, or ploy, to capture someone’s attention. Once the story hooks the person, the ...
Techniques such as phishing, vishing (voice phishing), pretexting, and impersonation are employed to simulate real-world attacks, with the aim of identifying weaknesses that could be exploited by ...
BEC is a form of pretexting – a type of social engineering where individuals are usually tricked into making large money transfers to a fraudster posing as a legitimate entity such as a supplier. On ...