Social engineering as a way of committing cyber crimes

2021 ◽  
pp. 133-138
Author(s):  
M.O. Yangaeva
Keyword(s):  
Social Engineering ◽  
Cyber Crimes

Ethical Hacking, Threats, and Vulnerabilities in Cybersecurity

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Nabie Y. Conteh
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Rapid Rise ◽  
Executive Summary ◽  
Penetration Testing ◽  
Cyber Crimes ◽  
Socio Economic Impact

This chapter will discuss the important topic of ethical hacking, also known as penetration testing. It will start by explaining the constituents of ethical hacking: scope and goal setting, exploitation, and documentation. The authors will define and explain the reasons for the rapid rise in cyber-crimes and their socio-economic impact. It will further discuss the steps involved in ethical hacking, who is allowed to conduct ethical hacking, its importance, and the role it plays in deterring future and potential hackers. The chapter will analyze the various types of malware and the steps to follow to become an ethical hacker. It will further describe social engineering, the types of cyber-attacks, the phases of attack, testing for vulnerabilities, and it will put forward a list of countermeasures. The chapter will end by detailing the steps to be taken in the documentation process and crafting the executive summary.

scholarly journals Individual Cyber Security: Empowering Employees to Resist Spear Phishing to Prevent Identity Theft and Ransomware Attacks

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason E. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Identity Theft ◽  
Difficult Problem ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Value Propositions ◽  
Cyber Crimes

One of the most difficult challenges in information security today is phishing. Phishing is a difficult problem to address because there are many permutations, messages, and value propositions that can be sent to targets. Spear phishing is also associated with social engineering, which can be difficult for even trained or savvy employees to detect. This makes the user the critical point of entry for miscreants seeking to perpetrate cyber crimes such as identity theft and ransomware propagation, which cause billions of dollars in losses each year. Researchers are exploring many avenues to address this problem, including educating users and making them aware of the repercussions of becoming victims of phishing. The purpose of this study was to interview security professionals to gain better insight on preventing users and employees from succumbing to phishing attack. Seven subject-matter experts were interviewed, revealing nine themes describing traits that identify users as vulnerable to attack or strongly resistive to attack, as well as training suggestions to empower users to resist spear phishing attacks. Suggestions are made for practitioners in the field and future research.

Online Social Networks Misuse, Cyber Crimes, and Counter Mechanisms

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-203
Author(s):  
Sanjeev Rao ◽  
Anil Kumar Verma ◽  
Tarunpreet Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Cyber Espionage ◽  
Cyber Crimes ◽  
Indispensable Tool ◽  
Insight Into

Online social networks (OSNs) are nowadays an indispensable tool for communication on account of their rise, simplicity, and efficacy. Worldwide users use OSN as a tool for social interactions, news propagation, gaming, political propaganda, and advertisement in building brand awareness, etc. At the same time, many OSN users unintentionally expose their personal information that is used by the malicious users and third-party apps to perform various kind for cyber-crimes like social engineering attacks, cyber espionage, extortion-malware, drug-trafficking, misinformation, cyberbullying, hijacking clicks, identity theft, phishing, mistrusts, fake profiles, and spreading malicious content. This chapter presents an overview of various cyber-crimes associated with OSN environment to gain insight into ongoing cyber-attacks. Also, counter mechanisms in the form of tools, techniques, and frameworks are suggested.

scholarly journals Cyber Attacks in the Era of COVID-19 and Possible Solution Domains

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Chin Eian ◽  
Lim Ka Yong ◽  
Majesty Yeap Xiao Li ◽  
Yeo Hui Qi ◽  
Fatima Z
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Security Research ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Online Activities ◽  
Cyber Crimes

In this COVID-19 pandemic, the use and dependency on Internet has grown exponentially. The number of people doing online activities such as e-learning, remote working, online shopping and others have increased. This has also led to increased vulnerability to cyber crimes. Cyber security attacks have become a serious problem. The common types of cyber security attacks are phishing, malware, ransomware, social engineering, identity theft and denial-of-service. The attackers target the victims in order to get their credential information or financial benefits. Those people who are doing online activities are vulnerable to cyber threats. This is because the network is not safe. The attackers are able to code according to the weaknesses of the Internet. Once the attackers hack into the devices, they have the root access and can do whatever they want to do with the device. In this research paper, the concept of cyber security attack and detailed research about real attacks are discussed. This is followed by detailed review about the recent cyber security attacks with a critical analysis. Moreover, the research paper will be proposing the latest research contribution of cyber security during COVID-19 and the implementation scenario which will give the examples about how the companies maintain privacy as well as the limitations. Then, the paper will be discussing the reasons that people are vulnerable to cyber security and the unique solution to the problems stated. Finally, this paper will conclude with an in-depth analysis and future direction for cyber security research.

scholarly journals Economic Impacts of Post Pandemic Cyber Crimes – A Global Overview

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (II) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Anirudh Bharadwaj M
Keyword(s):  
Social Engineering ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Remote Access ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Drastic Increase ◽  
Cyber Crimes

Cybercrimes have become as common as petty crimes and at every level we can face situations that make us vulnerable to cybercrimes through links, text messages on phones, scam phone calls etc. that demand to sensitive information and misuse them. The 2019-2021 Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2) Pandemic has shown a drastic increase in cybercrimes. As use of technology, remote access work and communication rise, increase in digital process increase, it has also made people vulnerable to many different types of cyber-attacks such as phishing, malwares and social engineering. It has also resulted in commercial theft of intellectual property. This paper tries to throw light on economic loses that have occurred due to cybercrimes.

Cyber crimes in the banking sector: Case study of Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
LE Thanh Tam ◽  
Nguyen Minh Chau ◽  
Pham Ngoc Mai ◽  
Ngo Ha Phuong ◽  
Vu Khanh Huyen Tran
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Cyber Crimes

The technological revolution 4.0 brings great opportunities, but also cybercrimes to economic sectors, especially to banks. Using secondary data and survey results of 305 bank clients, the main findings of this paper are: (i) there are several types of cybercrimes in the banking sector; (ii) Vietnam is one of the top countries worldwide having hackers and being attacked by hackers, especially the banking sector. Three most common attacks are skimming, hacking and phishing. Number of cybercrime attacks in Vietnam are increasing rapidly over years; (iii) Vietnamese customers are very vulnerable to cybercrime in banking, as more than 58% seem to hear about cybercrimes, and how banks provide services to let them know about their transactions. However, more than 50% do not have any deep knowledge or any measures for preventing cybercrime; (iii) Customers believe in banks, but do not think that banks can deal with cybercrime issues well. They still feel traditional transactions are more secure than e-transactions; (iv) the reasons for high cybercrimes come from commercial banks (low management and human capacity), supporting environment (inadequate), legal framework (not yet strong and strict enough on cybercrimes), and clients (low level of financial literacy). Therefore, several solutions should be carried out, from all stakeholders, for improving the cybersecurity in Vietnamese banks. 

Illegitimacy and Social Engineering

1973 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-275
Author(s):  
Jan Gorecki
Keyword(s):  
Social Engineering
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