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Social engineering and human vectors

Domain 2: threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations (V7 22%) / attacks (V8 24%) · Lesson 3 of 8

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Lesson 3 of 8 · Domain 2: threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations (V7 22%) / attacks (V8 24%)

Social engineering and human vectors

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Distinguish phishing, spear phishing, whaling, vishing, smishing and quishing (QR-code phishing) from scenario details
Identify business email compromise, pretexting, impersonation, brand impersonation, typosquatting and watering-hole attacks
Explain misinformation/disinformation and deepfake-enabled impersonation, and verification through an out-of-band channel

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