Four of the Newest (and Lowest) Social Engineering Scams
This is the ingress of an article I found today at CSO Online: “Social engineering thugs have reached new lows, as gangs play on users’ fears of privacy loss, theft and even death.”
This is the definition of social engineering at Wikipedia:
“Social engineering, in the context of information security, refers to psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. A type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or system access, it differs from a traditional “con” in that it is often one of many steps in a more complex fraud scheme.”
There are several methods used in social engineering, and here are the four latest (and lowest):
- Phishing with new lethal-strains of ransomware
- IVR and robocalls for credit card information
- Healthcare records for spear-phishing attacks
- Phishing with funerals
You can read the details here.
(Image: CSO Online)
