Pretexting

#social_engineering

(OBJ 2.2)

Pretexting

Gives some amount of information that seems true so that the victim will give more information
Example: Ask for the IP address of a printer by mentioning some brand and model and that you installed those last week and just want to check some issue with printing

Mitigation

Mitigation involves training the employees not to fall for pretext and not to fill in the gaps for people when they are calling