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Redefining Hacking: A Comprehensive Guide to Red Teaming and Bug Bounty Hunting in an AI-driven World
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Redefining Hacking: A Comprehensive Guide to Red Teaming and Bug Bounty Hunting in an AI-driven World

by Omar Santos, Savannah Lazzara, Wesley Thurner
February 2025
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
17h 38m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Redefining Hacking: A Comprehensive Guide to Red Teaming and Bug Bounty Hunting in an AI-driven World

5

Social Engineering and Physical Assessments

Chapter Objectives

After reading this chapter and completing the exercises, you will be able to do the following:

  • Understand how to approach phone pretexting calls

  • Prepare your phishing infrastructure and execute the campaign

  • Identify weak physical security controls

  • Breach physical buildings

When you think about organizations being breached, most individuals don’t realize that the most common method is through social engineering techniques. According to Proofpoint, 70 percent of data breaches begin by social engineering attacks (https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-reference/social-engineering).

In 2022, Uber faced an incident involving social engineering leading to network access. An attacker ...

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ISBN: 9780138363635