CAPEC-427: Influence via Psychological Principles
Description
The adversary shapes the target's actions or behavior by focusing on the ways human interact and learn, leveraging such elements as cognitive and social psychology. In a variety of ways, a target can be influenced to behave or perform an action through capitalizing on what scholarship and research has learned about how and why humans react to specific scenarios and cues.
- Likelihood of attack
- Low
- Typical severity
- Low
- Abstraction
- StandardA specific methodology or technique used in an attack.
Mechanism of attack: Engage in Deceptive Interactions
Prerequisites
- The adversary must have the means and knowledge of how to communicate with the target in some manner.
Skills required
- LowThe adversary requires strong inter-personal and communication skills.
Consequences
- ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
Other
Attacks that successfully influence the target into performing an action via psychological principles can result in a variety of consequences that negatively affect the confidentiality, availability, and/or integrity of an application or...
Mitigations
- An organization should provide regular, robust cybersecurity training to its employees to prevent social engineering attacks.
Related weaknesses (CWE)
CAPEC 3.9 links no CWE weakness to this pattern.