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What is an example of social engineering?
Social engineering attacks are a type of cybercrime wherein the attacker fools the target through impersonation. They might pretend to be your boss, your supplier, someone from our IT team, or your delivery company. Regardless of who they're impersonating, their motivation is always the same — extracting money or data.
What is an example for social engineering attack?
Cyber criminals pay attention to events capturing a lot of news coverage and then take advantage of human curiosity to trick social engineering victims into acting. For example, after the second Boeing MAX8 plane crash, cyber criminals sent emails with attachments that claimed to include leaked data about the crash.
