Case Study On Social Engineering Techniques for Persuasion

TL;DR

This paper examines social engineering techniques used in cyber attacks, illustrating their effectiveness through a case study on spyware, and discusses basic defense principles for individuals and organizations.

Contribution

It provides a detailed case study demonstrating social engineering success on Linux, highlighting vulnerabilities and proposing fundamental defense strategies.

Findings

100% success rate in social engineering attack on Linux

Social engineering can bypass security even on secure OS

Basic defense principles can prevent most attacks

Abstract

There are plenty of security software in market; each claiming the best, still we daily face problem of viruses and other malicious activities. If we know the basic working principal of such malware then we can very easily prevent most of them even without security software. Hackers and crackers are experts in psychology to manipulate people into giving them access or the information necessary to get access. This paper discusses the inner working of such attacks. Case study of Spyware is provided. In this case study, we got 100% success using social engineering techniques for deception on Linux operating system, which is considered as the most secure operating system. Few basic principal of defend, for the individual as well as for the organization, are discussed here, which will prevent most of such attack if followed.