Attack automation Clause Samples

Attack automation. With computer-based attack tools, social engineers can actually automate most parts of their attacks, and consequently increase the efficiency of mass social engineering-based attacks. Nevertheless, nowadays automated mass SE attacks are limited to generic phishing attacks and to the usage of some chat bots to lure victims into malicious sites. Social Networks (SNs) are present on people’s daily life and it is common for someone to use more than one SN (see section 2.2). One of the most challenging areas in SE automation is the usage of chat-bots to exploit SNs. In this section we will briefly present two proof-of-concepts with different approaches for chat-bots. The first approach uses a chat-bot to mimic human behaviour trying to play his role on a conversation with another human. In an alternative approach, a chat-bot execute a man-in-the-middle-attack trying to control the conversation between two real humans.