Give an example of a social engineering attack including wha

Give an example of a social engineering attack, including what information the attacker will be able to gather from the victim. Also, give a security control that could have prevented the attack.

Solution

Social engineering is the technique of seeking the data or confidential information from the people by tricking them. The information consists of bank account details, computer hacking by injecting malcious malware into the system. The example of social engineering attack are sending Emails to the people that they had won the lottery by clicking the link it asks about our bank details and others there by giving the details we will become the victim to this attack and in some websites it shows a pop up like click here to download by clicking those it installs a malware into our system and gets our personal data. The information contains the bank details and financial transactions of an company, credit card details and our personal data also the attacker may misuse our data for his own benefits.

In order to not to become a victim to this attack we have to take necessary steps like we have to read the Emails throughly and we should not open the unwanted mails. and we have to delete the Mails of the financial transactions that are asked to give the reply. securing our personal devices like computer, laptop by installing the anti virus and firewall protection. Don\'t open the foreign offers mails because these mails are fake. By taking these steps we can prevent the cyber attacks. we have to be strong logically.