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Capec-427 Detail

Influence via Psychological Principles

Standard Social Engineering Likelihood: Low Typical Severity: Low

Parents: 416

Children: 428 429 433 434 435

Description

The adversary shapes the target's actions or behavior by focusing on the ways human interact and learn, leveraging such elements as cognitive and social psychology. In a variety of ways, a target can be influenced to behave or perform an action through capitalizing on what scholarship and research has learned about how and why humans react to specific scenarios and cues.

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External ID Source Link Description
CAPEC-427 capec https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/427.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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  1. The adversary must have the means and knowledge of how to communicate with the target in some manner.

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Low
The adversary requires strong inter-personal and communication skills.
Integrity Availability Confidentiality
Other (Attacks that successfully influence the target into performing an action via psychological principles can result in a variety of consequences that negatively affect the confidentiality, availability, and/or integrity of an application or system.) Other (Attacks that successfully influence the target into performing an action via psychological principles can result in a variety of consequences that negatively affect the confidentiality, availability, and/or integrity of an application or system.) Other (Attacks that successfully influence the target into performing an action via psychological principles can result in a variety of consequences that negatively affect the confidentiality, availability, and/or integrity of an application or system.)

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