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Using Maltego to collect data on an individual

In the previous example, we looked at how one can use Maltego to collect information about a whole domain. We now want to concentrate the attack on a specific person because oftentimes a social engineer will be attacking an individual. Social engineering targets the human and therefore most attacks will be directed towards the human. In order to target a person, the key piece of information that Maltego works with is an email address. This is because people use their email addresses to sign up on different platforms and networks. Whilst they may use different names, the email address remains the same in most cases. Even though one may have several email addresses, there is one or two that tend ...