Analysis of Recent Attacks based on Social Engineering Techniques

TL;DR

This paper classifies social engineering attacks to improve threat detection and control, aiming to enhance understanding and prevention of attacks that compromise personal and corporate confidential information.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed classification of social engineering attack types and assesses their potential harm and countermeasures, providing a foundation for further practical research.

Findings

Classification of social engineering attacks developed

Assessment of attack harm levels provided

Countermeasure strategies outlined

Abstract

This paper attempts to strengthen the pursued research on social engineering (SE) threat identification, and control, by means of the author's illustrated classification, which includes attack types, determining the degree of possible harm to each types of possible, known attacks, countermeasures by types of threats that leads to loss of personal or corporate confidential information (user id, passwords, closed documentation). Further, this analytical study will become the starting point for deeper, practically oriented and tested research.