CAPEC-427: Influence via Psychological Principles

MITRE CAPEC attack pattern

Description

The adversary shapes the target's actions or behavior by focusing on the ways human interact and learn, leveraging such elements as cognitive and social psychology. In a variety of ways, a target can be influenced to behave or perform an action through capitalizing on what scholarship and research has learned about how and why humans react to specific scenarios and cues.

Prerequisites

• The adversary must have the means and knowledge of how to communicate with the target in some manner.

Skills required

• Low: The adversary requires strong inter-personal and communication skills.

Consequences

• Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability: Other

Mitigations

• An organization should provide regular, robust cybersecurity training to its employees to prevent social engineering attacks.

Source

• MITRE CAPEC CAPEC-427