Internet-based Social Engineering Attacks, Defenses and Psychology: A Survey. (arXiv:2203.08302v2 [cs.CR] UPDATED)

Social engineering attacks are a major cyber threat because they often serve
as a first step for an attacker to break into an otherwise well-defended
network, steal victims' credentials, and cause financial losses. The problem
has received due amount of attention with many publications proposing defenses
against them. Despite this, the situation has not improved. In this paper, we
aim to understand and explain this phenomenon by looking into the root cause of
the problem. To this end, we examine …

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