Social Engineering

What are Social Engineering & Phishing Attacks?

Social Engineering is the term used for a broad range of malicious activities accomplished through human interactions. It uses psychological manipulation to trick users into making security mistakes or giving away sensitive information. Rather than an attacker searching for a software vulnerability to exploit, they take advantage of human psychology: A hacker might fabricate a pretense to gain the trust of an individual and ultimately convince them to share access credentials to systems or office space, or wire funds, for example. Social engineering attacks tend to target individuals who have special access to these assets. It also provides a baseline for the effectiveness of the education and awareness program and how well an organization can withstand a targeted social engineering attack.

Phishing attacks are often characterized as an attempt to deceive or trick the target into performing an action that they otherwise would not have done if they were aware of the true intentions of the attacker. These attacks are a form of social engineering, which is the use of psychological manipulation to exploit human weaknesses and gain access to sensitive information or systems.

Phishing attacks often rely on the creation of a convincing message or website that appears to be from a trustworthy source, such as a bank or a company. This is achieved through the use of various tactics such as domain spoofing, where the attacker creates a fake website that closely resembles the legitimate one, or by using social engineering techniques to create a sense of urgency or importance to encourage the target to take action.

Targeted Phishing Simulations for the Modern Threat Landscape

Did you know that 91% of successful data breaches started with a spear-phishing attack?

Find out what percentage of your employees are Phish-Prone with our Phishing Simulation Test. Today, phishing your own users is just as important as having an antivirus and a firewall. Why? If you don’t do it yourself, the bad guys will. IT Pros have realized that doing this is urgently needed as an additional security layer.

Our techniques mimic real-life scenarios attacks including spoofing, and reconnaissance techniques, not just by email or automated simulations that are easier to detect but using sophisticated ways, that are proven successful daily. You will find out what percentage of your users are vulnerable. The number is usually much higher than you think.

Malicious users are often more successful at breaching a network infrastructure through social engineering than through traditional network/application exploitation. To help you prepare for this type of strike, we use a combination of human and electronic methodologies to simulate attacks. Human-based attacks consist of impersonating a trusted individual in an attempt to gain information and/or access to information or the client infrastructure. Electronic-based attacks consist of using complex phishing attacks crafted with specific organizational goals and rigor in mind. Our team will customize a methodology and will perform attacks on real target employees from an extensive reconnaissance approach.

Each attack is unique and crafted with a lot of time spent creating a specific scenario.

Types of Phishing Attacks

Phishing attacks can come in various forms, such as email, SMS, or even phone calls. 

Email phishing attacks are the most common type of attack, Cybercriminals send out convincing-looking emails that appear to come from a legitimate source, such as a bank or a social media platform. The emails typically contain a link that, when clicked, takes the victim to a fake website designed to steal their login credentials or other sensitive information

SMS phishing attacks, also known as smishing, are similar to email phishing attacks, but instead of email, the attacker sends the fraudulent message through a text message. Phone phishing attacks, also known as vishing, involve the attacker calling the target and posing as a legitimate representative of a company or organization in order to trick the target into revealing sensitive information.

Spear-phishing attacks are a type of phishing attack that targets specific individuals or organizations, usually for the purpose of stealing sensitive information or gaining access to secure systems. 

Whaling attacks are targeted toward high-profile individuals & celebrities, such as CEOs or government officials. Cybercriminals use sophisticated social engineering tactics to craft convincing messages that appear to come from a trusted source, such as a board member or a government agency. The goal of a whaling attack is typically to steal sensitive information or gain access to secure systems.

What can you achieve by choosing our solution?

Our team will attempt to compromise a pre-set target using Social Engineering techniques. This is ideal for testing the human element of your organization for security weaknesses.

• Simulate sophisticated attack scenarios with targeted attacks that guarantee a 100% success rate in clicking and potentially revealing credentials.
• Evaluate the success of your employees by providing education and awareness training consistently giving the right experience for users not to fall for a more advanced way of being attacked.
• Evaluate the overall effectiveness of your Defensive mechanisms set showcasing how it can be bypassed after a successful attack.
• Educate your defensive team on how to tweak better the devices and reaction mitigating the risks beforehand.

Social Engineering attacks have been increasing and expanding extensively, due to the ease of attack and the ability to bypass a number of security measures to gain access to sensitive information. Hackers are finding it much easier to go behind the security parameters and directly attack an employee on their personal phone or machine and work their way from there toward gaining access to your business.

Pricing

Each client is unique to us. We will have to discuss and get an understanding of gathering enough information so that we can accurately estimate the timeline and budget needed to complete the testing.