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ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question

While working remotely, a cloud operations engineer receives a phone call from a person who knows her employee ID and says, "I am from the internal help desk. We detected suspicious activity in your AWS account, and I need you to confirm your MFA code so I can reset your credentials right now." Which social-engineering manipulation technique is the caller attempting to use?

  • Tailgating

  • Shoulder surfing

  • Baiting

  • Pretexting

ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
Security Concepts and Practices
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