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Social Engineering 101: What It Is & How to Safeguard Your Organization

Duo's Security Blog

But as it turns out, John was a victim of a phishing scam, a type of social engineering attack where the cybercriminal impersonated John’s IT department to gain his trust and trick him into revealing his login credentials. What is social engineering? receives an email from the IT department.