Feeding from the Trust Economy: Social Engineering Fraud

Originally published by Microsoft Security. In an increasingly online world, where trust is both a currency and a vulnerability, threat actors seek to manipulate human behavior and take advantage of people’s tendency to want to be helpful. In this infographic, we’ll explore social engineering including why threat actors value professional identities above all others while walking you through some of the ways they manipulate human nature to achieve their goals.Social engineering and the crimin...

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