ReviewFrontiers in psychology2020
Human Cognition Through the Lens of Social Engineering Cyberattacks.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Influence of Human Factors on Cyber Security within Healthcare Organisations: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Pooled it
- Cybersecurity as it relates to perfusion.The journal of extra-corporeal technology · 2026Article
- The COVID-19 scamdemic: A survey of phishing attacks and their countermeasures during COVID-19.IET information security · 2022Review
- How Good Are We at Detecting a Phishing Attack? Investigating the Evolving Phishing Attack Email and Why It Continues to Successfully Deceive Society.SN computer science · 2022Article
- Effect of Seeding Strategy on the Efficiency of Brand Spreading in Complex Social Networks.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Social engineering cyberattacks are a major threat because they often prelude sophisticated and devastating cyberattacks. Social engineering cyberattacks are a kind of psychological attack that exploits weaknesses in human cognitive functions. Adequate defense against social engineering cyberattacks requires a deeper understanding of what aspects of human cognition are exploited by these cyberattacks, why humans are susceptible to these cyberattacks, and how we can minimize or at least mitigate their damage. These questions have received some amount of attention, but the state-of-the-art understanding is superficial and scattered in the literature. In this paper, we review human cognition through the lens of social engineering cyberattacks. Then, we propose an extended framework of human cognitive functions to accommodate social engineering cyberattacks. We cast existing studies on various aspects of social engineering cyberattacks into the extended framework, while drawing a number of insights that represent the current understanding and shed light on future research directions. The extended framework might inspire future research endeavor toward a new sub-field that can be called
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