Social Engineering: Examples Continued

This video continues the focus on fear or greed as tools for hackers using social engineering.

Hackers may try to use extortion to get you to respond to their messages. As with the FBI example seen in the previous video, the idea is that you will be scared, and this fear will make you respond quickly – and recklessly.

Alternatively, some hackers take a different approach and will try to initiate contact through scams stating that you have won money.

When you receive an unexpected message and you find yourself having an emotional response, it is important to pause and take a few moments before you act. We will go into more detail on what you should do in the next step.

Reflect and share: In the next step you will learn what to do to mitigate these types of attacks, but take a moment now to reflect on how you have responded to social engineering attacks using fear or greed in the past. Share your comments in the section below.