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Taxonomy of the social engineering attacks

In order to give a clear picture of the different terms related to social engineering attacks, here a taxonomy for the classification of social engineering attacks is presented in the following figure. The rest of this section describes this detailed classification of social engineering attacks:

Overview of our classification of attack characteristics and attack scenarios

The classification is based on three main categories—medium, operator (social engineer), and compliance principles.

As is shown in the Social engineering attack life cycle figure in the Social engineering attacks life cycle section, ...