Social engineering is a cybersecurity attack technique that relies on manipulating human behavior to gain unauthorized access to information, systems, or networks.

Human behaviors like trust, fear, urgency, desires, curiosity, greed, excitement, over confidence plays a crucial role in social engineering. Attackers use different tactics such as Phishing, Pretexting, Baiting, Voice Phishing, Tailgating, Spear Phishing, etc. to victimize their targets.