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Who Are They Pretending to Be?

Impersonation borrows someone else’s trust. Name whose: an executive, the help desk, or a brand.

⚑ Complete this interactive to capture a CTF flag worth 5 points.

About this interactive

What you are doing: naming who the attacker pretends to be. The lesson’s three targets. An authority figure: a chief executive, an executive or a manager, someone people in the organization are used to obeying. Tech support: the organization’s own help desk or service desk, which people trust to ask for logins and remote access. A brand or website: a well-known outside company (a bank, a delivery firm, a software maker) or a copy of its website, including a misspelled domain (typosquatting). How to use it: ask whose authority the attacker is borrowing. Someone above you, your own support team, or a company you deal with.

What you'll learn

Aligned to

CompTIA Security+
2.2 Explain common threat vectors and attack surfaces.

Key terms

Impersonation
A social engineering tactic in which an adversary poses as a trusted individual or authority figure to gain a victim's confidence and compliance.
Brand Impersonation
A social engineering technique where an attacker poses as a well-known company or organization to gain a victim's trust and extract information or access.
Typosquatting
A form of impersonation that registers misspelled or look-alike domain names to deceive users into visiting fraudulent websites.
Vishing
A voice-based social engineering attack in which an attacker uses phone calls or voice messages to manipulate targets into revealing sensitive information or taking a harmful action such as transferring funds or resetting credentials.

Topics

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