Counteracting social engineering attacks
Affan Yasin, Rubia Fatima, Lin Liu, Jianmin Wanga, Raian Ali, Ziqi Wei · Computer Fraud & Security · 2021
Social engineers are very successful at exploiting human weaknesses, gathering information, communicating with people and creating creative storylines attacking people's psychological needs and weaknesses. And that is why people, who are among the weakest links in the information security chain, remain susceptible to social engineering attacks.