One of the most common themes in
social engineering fraud is that the fraudster creates a sense of urgency.
Threat actors know perfectly well about most users» apprehension of digital viruses, therefore
social engineering frauds typically revolve around keywords like «virus», «malware», or «security problem» to turn that sensitive switch on.
Not exact matches
But the Mueller indictment echoes subsequent findings that masses of false or misleading
social media activity was
engineered by Russia's Internet Research Agency, as part of a plan to «defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the government through
fraud and deceit» beginning as early as 2014.
Working alongside other cybercriminals, he helped design, implement and refine identity theft, ATO
fraud, card - not - present
fraud, IRS tax
fraud and countless other
social engineering attacks, breaches and hacking operations.
In one example, a malfeasant
social engineered some information from customer service representatives that enabled the malfeasant to contact customers and try to obtain more information that could be used for
fraud.
Cybercriminals will use GDPR as a
social engineering tactic in the same way they try to obtain a response to fake
fraud communications posing as your bank.