The social engineering case studies are as follows:
Case studies of social engineering
CEO fraud
CEO fraud occurs when social engineers impersonate company executives and manipulate other employees to transfer unauthorized finances or information. According to the FBI, since January 2015, there has been a 270 % increase in identified victims of CEO scams, and $2.3 billion lost to CEO fraud.
Some examples of CEO fraud attack are as follows:
Examples of CEO fraud attack
Cybercriminals make phishing attacks to an executive and gain access to their inbox, or email employees from a look-alike domain name that is one or two letters off...