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Social Engineering Attacks: Trends, Psychological Triggers, and AIdriven Prevention

2025-10-09

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Social engineering is one the most common and potent attack techniques in cybersecurity, by which humans are deceived instead of computers, to breach a system and data. This article examines the recent evolution of social engineering attacks, the psychological factors that make them effective, and how advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are helping to combat them. Recent examples, such as the 2020 Twitter bre...

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Literature Corpus work: eb529e6e-dc76-5395-a3d7-266c7461c637
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202510.0663.v1

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