Social Engineering Attacks

Social Engineering:  

Social Engineering is the art of hacking humans.It i refers to psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or giving up confidential information. 

Social engineering is  based on  cognitive biases  

Wikipedia Definition: "Cognitive biases are tendencies to think in certain ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a "standard of rationality" or good judgment, and are often studied in psychology and behavioral economics." 

The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) 

The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) was created and written by the founder of TrustedSec. It is an open-source Python-driven tool aimed at penetration testing around Social-Engineering. SET has been presented at large-scale conferences including Blackhat, DerbyCon, Defcon, and ShmooCon. With over two million downloads, SET is the standard for social-engineering penetration tests and supported heavily within the security community. 

To Download SET: git clone https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit/ set/ 

Or if you are using Kali Linux you don't need to. 

 
SMS Spoofing: 

This is an amazing and improved feature that has made many security professionals think.  

Open the command line Terminal and type:  SET 

 
Select Social Engineering Attack 
 

 
 
select option 7: SMS spoofing attacks 
 

select the option no 1: Perform SMS spoofing attack 
 
 

select option no 1: SMS Attack single phone number 
 

Now enter the victim’s Phone-number 

select a template or use predefined templates