Comprehensive Assessment of Reverse Social Engineering to Understand Social Engineering Attacks

This paper gives a systematic analysis of social engineering attacks, including their categorizations, methods of detection, and strategies for mitigating them. Digital technology has recently advanced, making human-to-human contact easier and faster than before. However, without the proper safeguards, social media platforms and internet services could reveal confidential and sensitive information. Malicious actors can easily access communication networks by employing social engineering techniques. Hackers use social engineering to obtain sensitive data from victims, such as bank account details, passwords, and medical histories, for their own gain. Social engineering poses a serious threat to network security because it preys on people’s innate tendency toward trust. The paper carefully assesses reverse social engineering (RSE) and its impact on social engineering attacks.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  2023 5th International Conference on Smart Systems and Inventive Technology (ICSSIT)

• Publication date

  2023-01-23

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• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/ICSSIT55814.2023.10061054
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