Question

Choose one possible type of social engineering attack that a hacker could use in a real-world scenario. Examine the steps you would take if you were conducting this attack and the tools you would use. Identify at least one of those tools and explain the value it would provide in creating or performing the attack.

Answer 1

So if i am a real time hacker the social engineering attack that i will do in a real time scenario is the Phishing. As the phishing attack is the best social media attack that is been consider in the cyber crime.

Let me explain you that what is phishing. Phishing is considered as an attack that is been done on the social media to steal your personal data more over through the phishing attack the login verification credentials and more over your card details can also be stolen through the phishing attack. So the steps that are been considered for phishing attack are been defined below.

• First of all the thing that is been considered is this that of which social media you want to hack
• The next step is this that make a social media page that is same to same to the original one to do that you can copy the original website code.
• Then make a php script. As this script is been used to save the username and the passwords of the person that will be logged in to that fake social media.
• Then you should upload your webpage to a domain.
• Then Boom your webpage is ready as soon the person will login to that page so their credentials will be in your hands.

The tool that we will be using to do this phishing attack. The tools are the following

• Php Script
• Free web domain hosting.

The Php Script is very useful for this attack as it is the tool that is been used to get the verification credentials of the following your targeted user.

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