Person
person:christopher_hadnagy
Also: Chief Human Hacker, Chris, Chris Hadnagy
Social engineering practitioner, author, CEO of Social Engineer LLC, and guest interviewed in this episode.
Social engineering practitioner, author, CEO of Social Engineer LLC, and guest interviewed in this episode.
“Chris Hadnagy and primarily I’m the CEO or my fun title is Chief Human Hacker of Social Engineer LLC.”
“A big thank you to Christopher Hadnagy, the Human Hacker, for being here.”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | Social Engineer LLC | Explicit | 69 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | OffSec | Explicit | 69 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | The Innocent Lives Foundation | Explicit | 69 |
| outgoing | USES | phishing | Explicit | 69 |
| outgoing | USES | Vishing | Explicit | 69 |
| outgoing | USES | OSINT | Explicit | 69 |
| outgoing | USES | Pretexting | Explicit | 69 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | social-engineer.org | Explicit | 69 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | Social engineering framework | Explicit | 69 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | Social Engineer LLC | Explicit | 69 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | social engineering village | Explicit | 69 |
social-engineer.org DEVELOPED_BY Christopher Hadnagy
Chris says he set up and runs social-engineer.org as a resource for social engineers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Christopher Hadnagy EP 69 Details
“I also run social-engineer.org which is a free resource for social engineers”
Social engineering framework DEVELOPED_BY Christopher Hadnagy
Chris says he wrote and formulated the social engineering framework used by the website.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Christopher Hadnagy EP 69 Details
“I started to write a framework on social engineering”
“it took about nine or ten months that formulated the social engineering framework”
Christopher Hadnagy MEMBER_OF Social Engineer LLC
Chris identifies himself as the CEO, or Chief Human Hacker, of Social Engineer LLC.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Christopher Hadnagy EP 69 Details
“I’m the CEO or my fun title is Chief Human Hacker of Social Engineer LLC”
Social Engineer LLC DEVELOPED_BY Christopher Hadnagy
Chris says that his company was started after the framework and related work, and that he later formed his own company focused on social engineering.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Christopher Hadnagy EP 69 Details
“from there my company was started”
“formed my own company focused strictly on social engineering”
Christopher Hadnagy MEMBER_OF OffSec
Chris says he received a job offer from OffSec to work as its operations manager.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Christopher Hadnagy EP 69 Details
“got a job offer from OffSec to work with them as their ops manager”
Christopher Hadnagy MEMBER_OF The Innocent Lives Foundation
Chris says he runs The Innocent Lives Foundation, a nonprofit.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Christopher Hadnagy EP 69 Details
“Then I also run a nonprofit called The Innocent Lives Foundation”
Christopher Hadnagy USES phishing
Chris uses phishing campaigns as part of client security-awareness and penetration testing.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Christopher Hadnagy EP 69 Details
“In this particular test, we started off with a phishing e-mail”
“our goal is to steal credentials, to install an implant”
Christopher Hadnagy USES Vishing
Chris uses voice phishing in a test by impersonating technical support and calling an employee.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 69 Details
“Chris changed into Paul and acted like he’s from tech support”
“This is Paul from tech support. How you doing?”
Christopher Hadnagy USES OSINT
Chris and Ryan used open-source intelligence to learn that the Jamaican bank was undergoing an audit and to prepare their pretext.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Christopher Hadnagy EP 69 Details
“We had done a lot of OSINT and we found that the bank was undergoing an audit”
Christopher Hadnagy USES Pretexting
Chris and Ryan impersonated PCI auditors as a pretext for entering the bank.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Christopher Hadnagy EP 69 Details
“We were gonna pretend to be PCI auditors to try to get access to the building”
“They plan out their pretext or ruse”
social engineering village DEVELOPED_BY Christopher Hadnagy
Jack says Chris started the social engineering village at DEF CON.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 69 Details
“He’s the one who started the social engineering village at Defcon”