Analysis of Recent Attacks based on Social Engineering Techniques

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Volodymyr Sokolov

Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University

Oleksii Korzhenko

Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University

Date Written: November 2018

Abstract

This paper attempts to strengthen the pursued research on social engineering (SE) threat identification, and control, by means of the author's illustrated classification, which includes attack types, determining the degree of possible harm to each types of possible, known attacks, countermeasures by types of threats that leads to loss of personal or corporate confidential information (user id, passwords, closed documentation). Further, this analytical study will become the starting point for deeper, practically oriented and tested research.

Keywords: Attacks, Social Engineering

Suggested Citation

Sokolov, Volodymyr and Korzhenko, Oleksii, Analysis of Recent Attacks based on Social Engineering Techniques (November 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3455471 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3455471

Volodymyr Sokolov (Contact Author)

Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University ( email )

Kyiv
Ukraine

HOME PAGE: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9349-7946

Oleksii Korzhenko

Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University ( email )

Kyiv
Ukraine

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