Vishing
Phone-call impersonation of IT, vendors or executives to obtain credentials, OTPs or remote access
categorySocial engineering and human-targeted attacksseverityHighdetectabilityNonelabnot yet measured
Example: 11% of initial vectors (M-Trends 2026)
Classification
23 values: 15 reviewed, 7 imported, 1 derived. What do these mean?
Exploitability
| Attack vector | |
|---|---|
| Reach (CVSS) | |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | None |
| User interaction | Active |
| Attacker skill required | Medium |
| Resources required | Medium |
| Likelihood / prevalence | High |
| Maturity | Commoditized |
Impact & scope
| Severity | High |
|---|---|
| Impact | ConfidentialityIntegrity |
| Platform | Identity ProviderLinuxmacOSWindows |
| Environment | CloudMobile |
| Target asset class | HumanIdentity |
| Kill-chain phase (tactic) | Initial Access |
Detection & telemetry
| Detectability | None |
|---|---|
| Data sources (ATT&CK data components) | Application Log Content |
Detection & response
Mitigated by 1
- M1017 attack-mitigation
Detected by 1
- DET0245 attack-detection-strategy
Attack relationships
- Parent: BEC: data theft (W-2/PII)
- Parent: Device-code phishing
- Parent: Phishing
- Parent: Whaling
Framework references
- Primary source: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1566/004/
- attack: T1566.004 (primary)
Evidence & sources
- ev-0001 (Cyber Attack Taxonomy) — Name, definition and Example/ID taken verbatim from the 'Social engineering and human-targeted attacks' table, line 30 of Cyber-Attack-Taxonomy.md
- ev-0002 (MITRE Enterprise ATT&CK v19.2 (STIX 2.1)) — ATT&CK usage prevalence: 2 groups/software/campaigns reference this technique (ATT&CK enterprise v19.2)