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Mobile-based social engineering

Mobile-based social engineering can include creating a malicious app for smartphones and tablets with a very attractive feature that will lure users into downloading and installing the app on their devices. To mask the true nature of the malicious app, attackers use names similar to those of popular apps on the official app stores. Once the malicious app has been installed on the victim's device, the app can retrieve and send the victim's user credentials back to the attacker.

Another form of mobile-based social engineering is known as smishing. This type of attack involves attackers sending illegitimate SMS messages to random people with a malicious URL, asking the potential victim to respond by providing ...