Social engineering is used in virtually every advanced email attack. The techniques used come in various forms, usually involving personalized messages with details harvested from social networking sites or other public sources.
Organized cybercrime rings are highly sophisticated, mining marketing databases, social media profiles, online archives and corporate websites to identity and profile targets.
Through well-researched, expertly-crafted email messages backed by matching phishing sites, these thieves impersonate a trusted individual or brand.
Some campaigns will score their first victims in under four minutes. Others will involve meticulous grooming over weeks or even moths, as fraudsters gain the trust of unsuspecting business or consumer targets.
Through carefully-timed messages designed to maximize tension and exploit personal insecurities, victims rush to respond without carefully assessing the legitimacy of the sender or the message.
Criminals receive and launder funds before vanishing into thin air. Or they infiltrate compromised accounts and extract valuable data and information that can be monetized in future crimes.
While traditional attacks leverage technology-based system vulnerabilities, social engineering attacks take advantage of human vulnerabilities by using deception to trick victims into performing harmful actions.
Agari carefully inspects each incoming email, analyzing the human relationships and behaviors. By understanding the identities behind the message, Agari spots the anomalies prevent attacks regardless of social engineering triggers.
Social Engineering SurveyIdentity deception is core to social engineering and the key to tricking people into downloading malware, logging into fake web pages, or giving up information.
Agari detects, defends-against and deters identity deception tactics such as display name deception, spoofing, lookalike domains, and messages sent from hijacked sender accounts.
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Cybercriminals often pose as a trusted supplier or partner in order to launch successful spear phishing, ransomware, business email compromise attacks, or other social engineering-based attack.
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