Dragnet Your Social Engineering Sidekick

### Automating Open Source Intelligence for Social Engineering At 00:00, Truant King introduces Dragnet, an automated OSINT and social engineering framework designed to streamline intelligence gathering during authorized red team engagements, presented on the DEF CON 26 Main Stage.

### Moving From Intuition to Data-Driven Profiling At 03:18, King discusses why large-scale social engineering engagements require quantitative analysis. Rather than relying on subjective gut feelings, modern assessments benefit from structured data pipelines that correlate employee digital footprints to predict organizational vulnerability.

### Machine Learning and Receptivity Scoring At 06:31, the presentation explores Dragnet's analytical engine. By scraping publicly accessible employee data from professional networks, social media, and conference presentations, the system clusters employee interests and generates receptivity scores that identify optimal targets for tailored pretexts.

### Live Campaign Management Dashboard Walkthrough At 10:43, King demonstrates Dragnet's interactive engagement dashboard. The platform centralizes target profiles, provides customized conversational pretexts, and tracks email delivery, open rates, and user interactions in real-time to maximize campaign coordination.

### Multichannel Attack Orchestration Concluding between 14:23 and 18:25, King showcases the synchronization of coordinated email phishing and automated telephony (vishing) pretexts. By triggering phone outreach immediately after targets interact with simulated emails, red teams achieve significantly higher conversion rates during physical and electronic assessments.

(AI summary — Gemini Flash)