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Capec-410 Detail

Information Elicitation

Meta Social Engineering Software Typical Severity: Low

Children: 407

Description

An adversary engages an individual using any combination of social engineering methods for the purpose of extracting information. Accurate contextual and environmental queues, such as knowing important information about the target company or individual can greatly increase the success of the attack and the quality of information gathered. Authentic mimicry combined with detailed knowledge increases the success of elicitation attacks.

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External ID Source Link Description
CAPEC-410 capec https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/410.html
REF-348 reference_from_CAPEC http://www.social-engineer.org The Official Social Engineering Portal, Social-Engineer.org, Tick Tock Computers, LLC

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