During a red-team assessment, you scatter several company-branded USB flash drives that silently beacon home when plugged in, hoping curious employees will pick them up and insert them into their workstations. From a social-engineering standpoint, which specific technique are you leveraging in this scenario?
Leaving enticing physical media such as flash drives in places employees are likely to find them relies on curiosity and the promise of a tangible reward. This is classified as baiting, a social-engineering technique that "baits" the target with something desirable so the attacker can gain system access or deliver malware. Shoulder surfing involves observing a victim's screen or keyboard, pretexting builds a fabricated story to elicit information, and reverse social engineering requires the attacker to create a problem so victims seek the attacker's "help"-none of which match the described USB-drop tactic.
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