Hey there. I'm Rishalin Pillay, and welcome to Pluralsight in this red team
tools course featuring the Social‑Engineer Toolkit, the open source toolkit
developed by David Kennedy and maintained by TrustedSec.
The weakest link to any system is the person holding the information.
Social engineering has been around for ages.
Think of hackers such as Kevin Mitnick who was one of the
first people to use social engineering to manipulate people
into giving out sensitive information.
Today, social engineering techniques are still being used.
These types of attacks enable attackers to ultimately execute
more intense attacks such as credential theft,
ransomware, and much more.
The Social‑Engineer Toolkit enables you to perform various
types of social engineering techniques.
It was specifically designed for attacks against the
human element. With this toolkit you have the ability to
perform spear phishing attacks, credential harvesting attacks, and much more.
If you are looking to learn how to use the Social‑Engineer Toolkit
come join me in this course where we will focus on people information
gathering with the Social‑Engineer Toolkit.