Week 5: Infiltration

How malware reaches a target environment in the first place, from social engineering to exploited software weaknesses

24 August 2027

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Execution presumes malware is already present. This lecture covers how it gets there: through people, through software weaknesses, and through physical and network vectors, illustrated with case studies of infiltrations that worked.

Outline#

• how malware gets into a target environment
• social engineering
• exploiting software weaknesses
• physical and network vectors
• case studies in successful infiltration