Technique
technique:social_engineering
Also: emotional manipulation, false pretext, human hacking, phone scam, pretexting, ruse, scam calls, soc eng, social engineer, social engineering, social-engineer, social-engineering, social-engineering attack, socially-engineering
The technique of persuading users to run a malicious file by presenting it as a game cheat or other desirable program.
Fraud technique in which callers established trust, impersonated TalkTalk, and induced victims to transfer money.
“The caller would establish trust with the victim, convincing them they are from TalkTalk”
“The scammer would tell the victim that TalkTalk accidentally overpaid them”
Manipulation of employees through plausible identities, authority claims, and conversational pretexts to obtain access.
“I’m here with the auditor. We’re doing an audit on the computer systems from head office.”
“I tell her I need to get into the network halls. I’m doing some work for headquarters.”
The technique of persuading users to run a malicious file by presenting it as a game cheat or other desirable program.
“You’re looking for other cheater – people that want to cheat in the game. You tell them that you have the cheat for them.”
“You have to convince somebody to open the file and run it”
Manipulation of people to obtain information, credentials, access, or cooperation without relying solely on technical exploitation.
“Basically the contract was to use social engineering against an investment bank”
“That’s how Ira’s career got started as a social engineer and penetration tester.”
Manipulation of people to obtain information, access, or trust during security assessments.
“I found the social engineering village”
“The main ones that I do are physical security, phishing ... vishing”
Manipulating victims into visiting fraudulent login pages or revealing account information.
“a popular hacking tool designed to social engineer a victim”
Manipulation of an employee by impersonating IT to obtain a multi-factor authentication code.
“when I’m doing a soc eng or social engineering attack”
“through a solid social engineering exploit”
Using employee roles, uniforms, company materials, plausible stories, and social behavior to gain access or avoid scrutiny.
“by having this list of names and roles, it can help him out if he needs to drop a name or try to lie his way into the building”
“we dressed like we belonged”
Manipulation of people into granting access or performing actions for an attacker or tester.
“In order to do physical penetration testing or social engineering”
“it’s exploiting the human factor”
Manipulation and impersonation techniques used to obtain physical access, information, or network access.
“Social engineering, the deceptively benign-sounding name for tricking people into giving up their passwords”
“This is one of Dave’s specialties; social engineering”
Manipulation and intimidation of victims to induce payment, relying on embarrassment, shame, and fear.
“It’s an example of social engineering at its best, or maybe its worst.”
“This is ransomware with a twist of social engineering.”
Obtaining physical access by appearing to belong in the facility and relying on employees to open doors.
“Often, if you smile, folks will open the door for you.”
“when a simple smile opened the door”
Using interpersonal interaction, deception, persuasion, and relationship-building to influence people or obtain a desired outcome.
“the next logical step is social engineering”
“Social engineering for the win, right?”
Manipulation of employees or other people through pretexts and deceptive interactions to obtain access or information.
“physical exploits to gain access to facilities”
“a big part of that was testing the employees”
“do social engineering”
Manipulation of people through impersonation, deception, or interaction to obtain information or access.
“This typically involves a lot of social engineering”
“You only have to slip in, you only have to get in once”
Manipulation of people and trusted processes to obtain access or information, including the use of an official-looking food-service inspection ruse.
“what a ruse is”
“a ruse with authority”
“what a gnarly way to use social engineering and phishing methods for good”
Psychological persuasion and pretexting used to obtain information, access, or cooperation.
“someone who can persuade other people to do things they don’t want to do through different psychological tricks”
“This is what we’d call human intelligence, but it’s basically social engineering”
Impersonating cardholders and manipulating banks to change contact details and approve fraudulent transactions.
“he figured out ways to social engineer some of the banks connected to the cards.”
Use of human psychology and manipulation to gain access, information, or compliance.
“I’m a social engineer and specialist in the psychology of security.”
“We just need a social engineer.”
Manipulation or impersonation used to gain access or information, including by phone or in person.
“I also really love social engineering over the phone and in person.”
“the social engineering, phishing, stuff like that”
Manipulation of people or support staff to obtain information or induce a mobile provider to change a SIM.
“Miles thinks that’s what happened to him; the hacker spent some time putting together a target profile, then they were able to launch an informed social-engineering attack on him.”
“They were able to get ahold of T-Mobile and manipulate their way in”
Use of deceptive identities, pretexts, and conversations to elicit information or damaging statements from targets.
“this person is obviously coming under a false pretense”
“what the guy really wants to do is not talk about refugees and banking”
Manipulation of people into disclosing information or taking actions that benefit an attacker.
“this feels like a social engineering sort of thing”
Manipulation of people to disclose information or perform actions that support access or other objectives.
“manipulate people to get them to do things that you want them to do”
“the psychology behind social engineering”
Manipulation of BlackBerry employees by impersonating Google and obtaining Gmail password-reset codes over the phone.
“I was just curious to learn that particular method of social engineering.”
Manipulation of employees or account holders to obtain credentials, codes, or account actions.
“to try to social-engineer them.”
Persuasion and manipulation used to obtain information from people who are not authorised to share it.
“there’s social engineering techniques to gather data that they’re not authorized to have.”
Manipulation of email providers, telecommunications companies, and support staff to reset credentials or activate attacker-controlled devices.
“I started kind of as a social engineer”
“trying to social engineer the e-mail providers to reset the password”
Manipulation of people through apparently credible relationships, job offers, shared interests, or emotional appeals to obtain information or access.
“a way to social-engineer someone to get access into that company”
“used against her to get her to leak lots of sensitive documents”
Manipulation of employees or business contacts to obtain organizational, financial, or payment information.
“slowly social-engineer their way into the company”
“try to social-engineer them to give you more information”
Manipulation of victims or associates to obtain trust, money, or compliance.
“I was the social engineer and I was a manipulator”
Manipulation of people to influence their actions or prevent them from discovering criminal activity.
“Brett tricked the Secret Service agents and took advantage of their trust to social engineer them”
Manipulation or deception of people to gain access, information, or assistance.
“here, he tricked a guard into making him think he worked for the elevator company”
Manipulation of victims through personal details, emotional pressure, secrecy, urgency, and fabricated emergencies.
“the scammer will pose as someone you know and ask you for money.”
“when a scammer tries to isolate you and get you to not tell anyone else”
Manipulation of support personnel or account holders to obtain information or reset credentials.
“Most of it was just social engineering”
“pose as a technician on-site trying to help out a customer”
Manipulation of victims' emotions, trust, and perceptions to induce communication, payments, or other actions.
“they social-engineered him and tricked him into sending his crypto”
“They understand that they need to influence a person’s emotions”
Using personal information, fabricated roles, urgency, deception, and targeted persuasion to obtain payments.
“The more information we know about them, the easier it is to sell them on the degree.”
“we’d call them posing as the local government”
Manipulation of people to obtain access or information rather than exploiting a technical vulnerability.
“a lot of it is social engineering as opposed to some zero-day compromise”
Human-focused manipulation used to obtain information, access, or account control through communication and pretexts.
“It’s the exact same skill that you use every month to get the bill lowered”
Technique used to manipulate a Sky Mavis engineer through a fraudulent job-recruitment process.
“a very, very elaborate social engineering exercise on this person”
“offered them a job”
Technique Greg says he used to gain access to business interviews by presenting himself as the creator of Sub7.
“that’s pretty good social fucking engineering to get all the way”
Manipulation of trusted relationships and physical access practices to gain access to people, buildings, and systems.
“A white guy in a suit with a laptop with, you know, someone holding lots of books, someone will open the door for them”
“we would target Level 3, Level 2, and then ... Level 1”
Manipulating people or support personnel into disclosing information or performing account changes.
“he was also partaking in social engineering”
“That was the first experience of socially engineering someone.”
Manipulation or impersonation used to obtain access during a penetration test.
“a pen test but with a social engineering component”
“red-teaming, penetration testing, social engineering”
Manipulation of people over telephone systems to obtain information or access.
“dial someone, social-engineer them”
Manipulation of a developer to obtain access to the PEO network.
“He tried getting access through the developer using social engineering techniques”
Technique identified as part of the physical security testing work performed by the testers.
“which often entails social engineering, physical exploits to gain access to facilities”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| incoming | INVOLVES | TalkTalk 2014 Webpro data breach | Explicit | 4 |
| incoming | USES | Jason E. Street | Derived | 6 |
| incoming | USES | Mobman | Explicit | 20 |
| incoming | USES | Ira Winkler | Explicit | 21 |
| incoming | USES | Stan | Explicit | 21 |
| incoming | USES | Tony | Explicit | 21 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | Chinese intelligence operation | Uncertain | 21 |
| incoming | USES | Snow | Explicit | 22 |
| incoming | USES | Social-Engineer Toolkit | Explicit | 34 |
| incoming | USES | Tinker Secor | Explicit | 36 |
| incoming | USES | Kyle | Explicit | 40 |
| incoming | USES | JekHyde | Explicit | 41 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | JekHyde and Carl physical penetration engagement | Explicit | 41 |
| incoming | USES | Elliot | Explicit | 42 |
| incoming | USES | Dave Kennedy | Explicit | 42 |
| incoming | USES | Zain Qaiser | Explicit | 44 |
| incoming | USES | Reveton | Explicit | 44 |
| incoming | USES | TinkerSecure | Derived | 55 |
| incoming | USES | Jordan Harbinger | Explicit | 56 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | online predator investigation | Explicit | 56 |
| incoming | USES | FC | Explicit | 66 |
| incoming | USES | John Strand | Explicit | 67 |
| incoming | USES | Paint Parrot | Explicit | 80 |
| incoming | USES | Cameron Harrison | Explicit | 85 |
| incoming | USES | Jenny Radcliffe | Explicit | 90 |
| incoming | USES | Brian Halbach | Explicit | 95 |
| incoming | USES | Jonathan Studebaker | Explicit | 95 |
| incoming | INITIAL_ACCESS_VIA | The Pizza Problem | Uncertain | 97 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | Black Cube operation against Citizen Lab | Explicit | 99 |
| incoming | USES | Alethe Denis | Explicit | 107 |
| incoming | USES | Critical Insight | Explicit | 107 |
| incoming | USES | TeaMp0isoN | Explicit | 109 |
| incoming | USES | Remo snatching | Explicit | 112 |
| incoming | USES | Central Intelligence Agency | Explicit | 116 |
| incoming | USES | Joseph Harris | Explicit | 118 |
| incoming | USES | Joseph Harris | Explicit | 118 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | Axie Infinity cryptocurrency theft | Explicit | 122 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | Evaldas Rimasauskas BEC scam | Explicit | 124 |
| incoming | USES | Evaldas Rimasauskas | Explicit | 124 |
| incoming | USES | Gollumfun | Explicit | 128 |
| incoming | USES | Gollumfun | Explicit | 129 |
| incoming | USES | Deviant Ollam | Explicit | 134 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | Punjab family-impersonation scam | Explicit | 138 |
| incoming | USES | Crackas With Attitude | Explicit | 139 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | pig butchering | Explicit | 141 |
| incoming | USES | Axact | Explicit | 142 |
| incoming | USES | technical support scam | Derived | 143 |
| incoming | USES | Jim Browning | Explicit | 143 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | Social Engineering Contest | Explicit | 144 |
| incoming | USES | Rachel Tobac | Explicit | 144 |
| incoming | USES | SocialProof Security | Explicit | 144 |
| incoming | INITIAL_ACCESS_VIA | Axie Infinity | Explicit | 147 |
| incoming | USES | Greg | Explicit | 150 |
| incoming | USES | Conor Freeman | Explicit | 154 |
| incoming | USES | Maxie Reynolds | Explicit | 166 |
| incoming | USES | USDoD | Explicit | 177 |
TalkTalk 2014 Webpro data breach INVOLVES social engineering
The breach involved scam calls in which callers impersonated TalkTalk staff and groomed victims into trusting them.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 4 Details
“The caller would establish trust with the victim, convincing them they are from TalkTalk”
Jason E. Street USES social engineering
Jason uses social manipulation and plausible explanations to gain access to offices, teller areas, and computers during engagements.
Derived Confidence 97% · Jason E. Street EP 6 Details
“It’s all psychological.”
“I tell her that yeah, I’m here with the auditor.”
Mobman USES social engineering
Mobman socially engineered players into installing Sub7 by offering it as a game cheat.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“He was able to social engineer dozens of players to install the virus”
Ira Winkler USES social engineering
Ira conducted a contract engagement using social engineering against an investment bank.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 21 Details
“the contract was to use social engineering against an investment bank”
Stan USES social engineering
Stan used trust-building and conversations to get people to divulge government secrets.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 21 Details
“over time Stan would build trust with that person and get them to divulge government secrets”
Tony USES social engineering
Tony is described as using telephone social engineering to elicit information.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“we primarily used him for the telephone social engineering”
Chinese intelligence operation INVOLVES social engineering
The episode describes the suspected operation as using social situations and questions to recruit or pressure people into disclosing information.
Uncertain Confidence 85% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“What they do is they set up a social situation where people come in”
Snow USES social engineering
Snow professionally performs social-engineering assessments for companies.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Snow EP 22 Details
“I started my own consultancy and I’ve worked for a handful of companies doing this work professionally”
Social-Engineer Toolkit USES social engineering
The Social-Engineer Toolkit was described as a tool for creating the cloned login page and social-engineering victims.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 34 Details
“the social engineering toolkit which is a popular hacking tool designed to social engineer a victim”
Tinker Secor USES social engineering
Tinker impersonated IT over the phone to persuade an employee to disclose a Citrix MFA code.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details
“I lie to them and then I say hey, I’m somebody else from IT”
“She read it to me. I typed it in within the minute”
Kyle USES social engineering
Kyle and his team use disguises, cover stories, employee branding, and fabricated explanations to appear authorized.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Kyle EP 40 Details
“Typically, you want to dress for the part”
“we’re here dealing with some incident response stuff. We’re with information security.”
JekHyde USES social engineering
JekHyde identifies herself as a social engineer and uses social engineering during physical access engagements.
Explicit Confidence 99% · JekHyde EP 41 Details
“I am a physical penetration tester and social engineer.”
JekHyde and Carl physical penetration engagement INVOLVES social engineering
The engagement used social engineering to obtain trusted access to the facility.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details
“A Red Team assessment.”
“we exploited the human factor”
Elliot USES social engineering
In the described Mr. Robot clip, Elliot attempts to social engineer his way into a meeting.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 42 Details
“tries to social engineer his way into a meeting”
Dave Kennedy USES social engineering
Dave's security testing work used social engineering, including impersonation and diversion tactics.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 42 Details
“This is one of Dave’s specialties; social engineering”
Zain Qaiser USES social engineering
Zain told the Angler creators that he was experienced in social engineering and used manipulation to run the scheme.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 44 Details
“Zain tells them that he’s experienced in social engineering and that he’s good at manipulating people”
Reveton USES social engineering
Reveton used fear, embarrassment, and false police or FBI notices as a social-engineering tactic to pressure victims into paying.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 44 Details
“This is ransomware with a twist of social engineering. It’s a psychological trick, a scare tactic.”
TinkerSecure USES social engineering
TinkerSecure uses social-engineering pretexts, including pretending to be on a phone call and claiming he needs a desk for a presentation.
Derived Confidence 95% · TinkerSecure EP 55 Details
“I pulled out my phone, pretending to be on a call.”
“I need to prep real quick for a conference presentation, I asked.”
Jordan Harbinger USES social engineering
Jordan identified social engineering as the next step after learning from intercepted conversations and later used it to create a deceptive AOL identity.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jordan Harbinger EP 56 Details
“the next logical step is social engineering”
“Social engineering for the win”
online predator investigation INVOLVES social engineering
Jordan used a deceptive, girl-like screen name and conversational baiting as part of the investigation.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jordan Harbinger EP 56 Details
“I could easily go and get them and bait them into a chat”
FC USES social engineering
FC performs social engineering as part of his security work and penetration tests.
Explicit Confidence 99% · FC EP 66 Details
“I’ve done a lot of hacking, a lot of social engineering”
John Strand USES social engineering
John describes using social-engineering tactics to help law enforcement locate a kidnapping suspect.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 67 Details
“what a gnarly way to use social engineering and phishing methods for good”
Paint Parrot USES social engineering
Paint Parrot described his work as involving social engineering to persuade or deceive people into revealing information or granting access.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“You learn a lot of social engineering ‘cause you’re constantly having to talk your way into places you shouldn’t be”
Cameron Harrison USES social engineering
Cam social-engineered banks by posing as cardholders and changing the phone numbers and addresses associated with accounts.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 85 Details
“he figured out ways to social engineer some of the banks connected to the cards”
Jenny Radcliffe USES social engineering
Jenny identifies herself as a social engineer and describes using social engineering in professional security work.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jenny Radcliffe EP 90 Details
“I’m a social engineer and specialist in the psychology of security.”
“she’s done social engineering and physical infiltration, pen testing”
Brian Halbach USES social engineering
Brian says he performs social engineering over the phone and in person.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Brian Halbach EP 95 Details
“I also really love social engineering over the phone and in person.”
Jonathan Studebaker USES social engineering
Jonathan explicitly lists social engineering among the activities he performs.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jonathan Studebaker EP 95 Details
“but also the physicals, the social engineering, phishing, stuff like that.”
The Pizza Problem INITIAL_ACCESS_VIA social engineering
The attackers appear to have gained access by socially engineering mobile-provider representatives; Miles said they manipulated T-Mobile into changing the SIM.
Uncertain Confidence 91% · Miles EP 97 Details
“manipulate their way in through either doing it in person or doing it over the phone”
Black Cube operation against Citizen Lab INVOLVES social engineering
The operation used a false pretext about financial solutions for refugees and a fabricated identity to elicit information from Citizen Lab personnel.
Explicit Confidence 99% · John Scott-Railton EP 99 Details
“somebody who claimed to be interested in financial solutions in banking for refugees”
“this person is obviously coming under a false pretense”
Alethe Denis USES social engineering
Alethe works in social engineering and describes it as her professional specialty.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Alethe Denis EP 107 Details
“my core interest is growing our social engineering side”
Critical Insight USES social engineering
Critical Insight provides social-engineering engagements to clients.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 107 Details
“as well as social engineering engagements”
TeaMp0isoN USES social engineering
TeaMp0isoN used telephone social engineering while impersonating Google employees.
Explicit Confidence 99% · MLT EP 109 Details
“We called them all up, pretending to be from Google”
Remo snatching USES social engineering
Before stealing the tablet, attackers allegedly social-engineer the store manager to obtain the manager's password.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details
“you need to do recon on the store, figure out everything you can about the manager to try to social-engineer them”
“They send you a fake URL, you enter your manager login”
Central Intelligence Agency USES social engineering
Jack says the CIA uses the same social-engineering techniques used to gather unauthorized data.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 116 Details
“the CIA uses the exact same techniques to gather foreign intelligence”
Joseph Harris USES social engineering
Joseph says he began by socially engineering email providers and account owners.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joseph Harris EP 118 Details
“I started kind of as a social engineer”
Joseph Harris USES social engineering
Joseph used victims’ names and addresses to persuade email providers to reset passwords.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joseph Harris EP 118 Details
“all you need to know is someone’s name and address and you can completely take over their AOL account”
Axie Infinity cryptocurrency theft INVOLVES social engineering
The Axie Infinity attack involved enticing employees with job offers and manipulating them into opening a document.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 122 Details
“enticed them with great job offers”
Evaldas Rimasauskas BEC scam INVOLVES social engineering
The perpetrators used social engineering to gather information about Facebook and Google and their financial processes.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 124 Details
“they had to do it piece by piece and slowly social-engineer their way into the company”
Evaldas Rimasauskas USES social engineering
Evaldas and his team used social engineering to obtain information from Facebook, Google, and related companies.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 124 Details
“they had to do it piece by piece and slowly social-engineer their way into the company”
Gollumfun USES social engineering
Brett explicitly characterizes himself as a social engineer and manipulator while deceiving his wife and victims.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Brett Johnson EP 128 Details
“I was the social engineer and I was a manipulator”
Gollumfun USES social engineering
Brett used social engineering to distract Secret Service agents during an apartment search and conceal illegal items.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 129 Details
“Brett tricked the Secret Service agents and took advantage of their trust to social engineer them”
Deviant Ollam USES social engineering
Deviant describes using impersonation and deception to persuade guards that he was an elevator technician.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Deviant Ollam EP 134 Details
“I lie for a living. I just dropped into it.”
Punjab family-impersonation scam INVOLVES social engineering
The scam is presented as social engineering in which callers manipulate relatives into sending money.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 138 Details
“The idea here is simple; the scammer will pose as someone you know and ask you for money.”
Crackas With Attitude USES social engineering
CWA’s attacks against government personnel primarily used social engineering and information obtained through it.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Default EP 139 Details
“Most of it was just social engineering”
pig butchering INVOLVES social engineering
The scam uses emotional manipulation and relationship-building to persuade victims to send money.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 141 Details
“they social-engineered him and tricked him into sending his crypto to the scammer’s wallet”
Axact USES social engineering
Axact employees used persuasive and deceptive interactions to sell fake degrees and additional services.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Fazal EP 142 Details
“We’d then research that person, look for their social media profiles, try to find out their goals and ambitions, get to know them, then e-mail or call them”
technical support scam USES social engineering
The scam relies on convincing victims that their computers are infected and manipulating them into following the scammers’ instructions.
Derived Confidence 94% · Jack Rhysider EP 143 Details
“They’ll try to convince you that your computer has a virus and they can help”
Jim Browning USES social engineering
Jim says that much of his method for accessing scammers’ computers relies on social engineering rather than exploiting a zero-day vulnerability.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jim Browning EP 143 Details
“a lot of it is social engineering as opposed to some zero-day compromise of the remote access software that I’m using”
Social Engineering Contest INVOLVES social engineering
The contest involved using social-engineering calls to obtain information from a target company.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 144 Details
“get enough information to hack into a company, all through phone calls”
Rachel Tobac USES social engineering
Rachel performs social engineering as her professional specialization and in penetration tests.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Rachel Tobac EP 144 Details
“I do all the human hacking stuff”
“I’m one of the best social engineers I’ve ever met”
SocialProof Security USES social engineering
SocialProof Security provides social-engineering penetration testing and security-awareness work for companies.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 144 Details
“SocialProof Security, which is basically social engineering for hire”
Axie Infinity INITIAL_ACCESS_VIA social engineering
The reported initial compromise involved an elaborate social-engineering job offer aimed at a Sky Mavis engineer.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Geoff White EP 147 Details
“carried out a very, very elaborate — or at least in my opinion, very elaborate social engineering exercise on this person; offered them a job”
Greg USES social engineering
Greg describes using the false Sub7-author identity to obtain interviews and access at Capital One and Facebook, calling it social engineering.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Greg EP 150 Details
“that’s pretty good social fucking engineering to get all the way”
“I went to Capital One. I went to Facebook.”
Conor Freeman USES social engineering
Conor learned and used social engineering to obtain secret-question answers and take over an administrator’s account.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“he socially-engineered the admin of this server into giving him the two answers to his secret questions”
Maxie Reynolds USES social engineering
Maxie describes her first entry into full social engineering and penetration testing in Australia.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“My first entry point into full social engineer, really, and pen testing, was in Australia”
USDoD USES social engineering
USDoD tried to gain access to the PEO network by impersonating and socially engineering one of its developers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“He tried getting access through the developer using social engineering techniques”