Please note this article is for educational purpose only. What be your reaction if you get a mail in your corporate Inbox w ith from field as “HR Helpdesk” (assuming that’s how HR mail appears in your organization) with subject as “Best Employee Bonus of Rs. 1,50,000”? The mail reads that you have been awarded the bonus because of your hard work, dedication etc. All you need to do is reply with some of your official & personal details and the bonus is yours. If I were you I would jump on it and reply in matter of 30 seconds. However, what you would have failed to notice is that the email ID in reply field would not be one of your HR’s corporate email ID’s but some malicious unknown email ID on the public domain. This is what we called Social Engineering. Social Engineering is a term associated with attacker’s abilities to manipulate the natural human tendency of trust leading to malicious activities like unauthorized access, loss of confidential details, phishing etc. It’s actually
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