What is Social engineering? And importantly, how can you protect yourself from these types of attacks?
Social engineering is a technique used to manipulate people to gain private information, access or even valuables. Social engineering attacks can be through a variety of sources such as email, text or in person.
Watch this video to discover Kaspersky’s tips on identifying a social engineering attack and what to do.
- 0:00 Has this happened to you?
- 0:30 What is Social engineering?
- 1:09 The three traits of a social engineering attack
- 1:13 #1 Heightened emotions
- 1:35 #2 Urgency
- 1:54 #3 Trust
- 2:19 Where Social engineering attacks happen
- 2:56 What to do if you think you are being attacked by social engineering
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