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What is a social engineering attack?

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Social engineering is referred to like a broad range of methods majorly intended by the people who want to hack other people’s data or make them do a specific task to benefit the hacker.

The attacker first collects the victim’s information like security protocols required to proceed with the attack, and gains the victim's trust, and breaks security practices, such as granting access to critical resources or stealing sensitive information.  

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Social engineering is a fraudulent technique that exploits human error to gain access to sensitive information. Such attacks are intended at manipulating a user’s behavior. These attacks are either aimed at hacking the target user’s data or making them do a specific task to benefit the hacker.

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