Pretext-Pretexting
From Cognitive Attack Taxonomy
Pretext-Pretexting
Short Description: Attacker adopts a cover story to justify who they are.
CAT ID: CAT-2022-133
Layer: 8
Operational Scale: Tactical
Level of Maturity: Well-Established
Category: TTP
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Detailed Description: Adopting a cover story that a social engineer uses to justify who they are and why they are seeking access to a location, resource, system, or information. This can be as brief as a cover story for a phone call or as extensive as a including identification papers and a character legend for a deep cover operator.
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