An employee receives an email claiming they have won a lottery prize. The email contains a link prompting the employee to provide their name, mobile phone number, address, and date of birth to verify their identity before receiving the prize. Which of the following most accurately characterizes this kind of email?

• Spear phishing

• Whaling

• Phishing

• Vishing

Staff members in a company are getting unwanted text messages on their work mobile devices. These unsolicited messages include a link for resetting passwords. Which type of attack is being employed to target the company?

• Phishing

• Vishing

• Smishing

• Spam

A user on a mobile phone received an SMS requesting bank details. Which social engineering technique was employed in this instance?

• SPIM

• Vishing

• Spear phishing

• Smishing

An air traffic controller receives a modified flight plan for a morning aircraft over the phone. Upon comparing the alteration with the radar information, the air traffic controller identifies the information as false and successfully averts a potential incident. What does this scenario exemplify?

• Mobile hijacking

• Vishing

• Unsecure VoIP protocols

• SPIM attack

As part of enhanced information security measures aimed at mitigating data leakage risks, a company has implemented multiple crosscut shredders. What specific aspect will this initiative help minimize?

• Dumpster diving

• Shoulder surfing

• Information elicitation

• Credential harvesting

Despite implementing badge readers for building access, a company is encountering the presence of unauthorized individuals wandering through the hallways. What is the probable root cause of this issue?

• Shoulder surfing

• Phishing

• Tailgating

• Identity fraud

An attacker explores the online job board of a company in an effort to uncover pertinent details about the technologies employed by the company. Which of the following MOST aptly characterizes this social engineering method?

• Hoax

• Reconnaissance

• Impersonation

• Pretexting

Among the following, which social engineering attack most accurately characterizes an email designed primarily to deceive recipients into forwarding it to others?

• Hoaxing

• Pharming

• Watering-hole

• Phishing

A company becomes the focus of an attacker. Observing that employees regularly visit a specific website, the attacker opts to introduce malware to the site, anticipating that it will lead to infections on employees' devices. Which technique is the attacker employing in this scenario?

• Watering-hole attack

• Pretexting

• Typosquatting

• Impersonation

A user tries to navigate to the website http://example.com but unintentionally lands on http://examplle.com. The fraudulent website mirrors the appearance of the genuine site. Which of the following most accurately characterizes this form of attack?

• Reconnaissance

• Impersonation

• Typosquatting

• Watering-hole