SOCIAL ENGINEERING ATTACKS

Abstract

This article aims to understand how a social engineering attack works using Kali Linux, demonstrating how the tools used for the procedures work, presenting good practices that can help the user to be more secure and protect themselves from the types, we will talk about the main types of methods that occur frequently in our current society, they all use methods to deceive the victim, we are increasingly dependent and using more and more systems to improve our daily lives, such as bank applications for example, due to this frequent exposure of our personal information on the internet we need to address this issue that has been occurring frequently, harming millions of people a year, once we understand how a cyber attack using social engineering works, we can protect ourselves and minimize the risks of being hit and have both moral and financial losses. The work consists of a bibliographic review on the theme and presentation of an example of social engineering attack being done step by step using Kali Linux with the SET tool, the objective is to demonstrate the ease of operation of these tools and how to risk suffering such an attack has grown exponentially in recent years.