Social-engineering

Cyberthreat.

In the context of cyber attacks, 'social-engineering' means deceiving employees into voluntarily making fraudulent payments or other transactions, by causing them to believe that the fraudulent transactions are legitimate.

Sometimes written 'social engineering'.

See also

• CEO fraud
• Cyber attack
• Fraud
• Layering
• Phishing
• Ransomware
• Spoofing
• Whaling