18 March 2025
📲 Pretexting: How Hackers Gain Access to Your Information
🗒️ Pretexting is a dangerous method that hackers use to obtain your personal information.
Pretexting is a method that hackers use to obtain your personal information or access to your systems by deception.
👻 Hackers often pretend to be someone else to obtain your information.
📲 For example, a hacker might call you and pretend to be an employee of your company to obtain your password.
⚠️ Pretexting is a serious security threat. It is important to be vigilant and not trust unfamiliar people or organizations.
📱If someone calls you claiming to represent your company, call the company directly to verify that this is indeed the case.
Alt-text: A manga-style comic about a hacker who uses pretexting to gain access to a company's network. The hacker pretends to be a technician from the company's IT department and calls the company's secretary. The secretary gives the hacker the password to the company's network, and the hacker uses it to gain access to the company's confidential data.
Anna Pivtorak
Esposende, Portugal
18.03.2025