An employee gets out of the car and notices a USB drive lying on the parking lot. The drive appears to be new and has “My music files” written on the side of it in small font. The employee takes the drive into work and attempts to play one of the music files. The antivirus software alerts the user about potential malware after the computer started acting a little strange. This type of social engineering method is commonly known as what?

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An employee gets out of the car and notices a USB drive lying on the parking lot. The drive appears to be new and has “My music files” written on the side of it in small font. The employee takes the drive into work and attempts to play one of the music files. The antivirus software alerts the user about potential malware after the computer started acting a little strange. This type of social engineering method is commonly known as what?






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