You receive a phone call from your bank or from your IT department, requesting some information so a problem with your account can be cleared up. Only it turns out the call wasn’t from your bank at all. You’ve just experienced social engineering.
Technology Security
Watering Hole Attacks
Information security discussions are plagued with bad analogies, and none sounds stranger than a “watering hole attack,” which plays off the tactic in which predatory animals stalk food by waiting at a popular watering hole. Rather than hunt their prey, the predator will wait for the prey to come to it.