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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
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 |
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| 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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- The adversary must have the means and knowledge of how to communicate with the target in some manner.
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| Low |
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| The adversary requires strong inter-personal and communication skills. |
| Integrity | Availability | Confidentiality |
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| 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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