Chapter 10. The Social-Engineer Toolkit
The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) was developed to coincide with the release of Social-Engineer.org, a set of resources conceived by Chris Hadnagy (loganWHD) and written by one of this book’s authors, David Kennedy. The site offers a centralized location for social-engineering tutorials and explains terminologies, definitions, and scenarios that can help prepare you for hacking the human mind.
The purpose of SET is to fill a gap in the penetration testing community and bring awareness to social-engineering attacks. And it has succeeded— SET has been downloaded 1 million times and is now an industry standard for deploying social-engineering attacks. The toolkit attacks human weaknesses, exploiting curiosity, ...
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