Social Engineering: What Is Social Engineering? | Part 2

In the last blog, we briefly overview social engineering and how it can be used in real life. In this blog, we'll learn about what is social engineering

What is Social Engineering?

As we have learned in our last blog about social engineering now in this blog we will dive deep into this.

It is a form of psychological manipulation that persuades a person to give up confidential information.

In simple, we can say that we need to manipulate a person to give his confidential information pretending to be someone else whom the person will trust. None will give us his personal information if he doesn’t trust us so we will be pretending someone whom the user or our target can trust that can be a verified and trusted bank, company, relative, or others.

So in other exploitation, we use some exploits or have to find some vulnerabilities. But in social engineering, we will only fool our target and the rest of our work will be done by the person/target itself.

But it is not fully fooling our victims. It will be hard for us so we will use some techniques and tools or software which will help us in our journey of social engineering.

And you will be using these tools but for being successful in this field you need to be a good representative of your attack. How well you deceive the target into believing what you are doing is legitimate.

You can understand social engineering like penetration testing. So in penetration testing hackers find bugs or vulnerabilities in software and in social engineering hackers find bugs and vulnerabilities in humans that can be

• lust for money
• Helping others
• Fear
• Trusting others
• Obedient to authority

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