awesome-social-engineering
A curated “awesome list” of social-engineering resources — the human-knowledge counterpart to this spoke’s AI-OSINT tools. By giuliacassara; CC-BY-4.0; ~4k★. T4: a community-curated link list (a map of the field, not a primary or analyzed source).
What it collects
- Psychology of influence — persuasion/manipulation texts (Cialdini; Chris Hadnagy; Kevin Mitnick).
- Phishing tooling — Gophish, King Phisher, Evilginx2, wifiphisher.
- OSINT / reconnaissance — Maltego, theHarvester, Shodan, Spiderfoot, recon-ng (the manual recon stack the AI-OSINT tools automate).
- Defense & community — the Social-Engineer portal, the Layer 8 conference.
- Training — courses (Udemy, PacktPub, Cybrary).
Its disclaimer scopes the material to security professionals, pentesters, and controlled-environment education.
Why it matters here
It supplies the spoke’s human-element half and its manual-OSINT baseline: the Maltego/theHarvester/ Shodan stack it lists is exactly the reconnaissance that llm-osint and kallisto-osinter automate. So it grounds two of the spoke’s pages at once — social-engineering (the attack discipline OSINT serves) and the before picture of the automation story. Catalogued to map the field and frame the ethics, not as an operational guide.