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Social Engineering

links: AC1 TOC - Intro - Index

Based on slides from Joint Threat Research and Intelligence Group (JTRIG)

Keywords

“discredit”, promote “distrust”, “dissuade”, “deceive”, “disrupt”, “delay”, “deny”, “denigrate/degrade”, and “deter”

Principles

  • Distraction - Let your guard down
  • Herd - Everybody is doing it so its safe?
  • Dishonesty - Hard to seek help as everything bad is used against you
  • Deception - Things/people are not what they seem
  • Need and Greed - Take advantage of your needs and desires
  • Time - Pressure
  • Social Compliance principle / Authority - Following leaders
  • Reciprocity - You want to give back if you got something
  • Consistency - Backing out of deals is hard once they are made
  • Flattery - Easier to say yes if you like someone

JTRIG Tools

  • BIRDSTRIKE Twitter monitoring and profile collection.
  • SPRING BISHOP Find private photographs of targets on Facebook.
  • ...

JTRIG Capabilities

  • GESTATOR amplification of a given message, normally video, on popular multimedia websites.
  • SWAMP DONKEY silently locate files and encrypt them on a target’s machine.
  • UNDERPASS Change outcome of online polls
  • ...

links: AC1 TOC - Intro - Index