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Social Engineering

Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.

Why You Can’t Arrest Your Way Out of Youth Cybercrime

Two days at INTERPOL on youth cybercrime, why offender prevention is real police work and why it has to out-recruit rather than out-threaten.

[FREE RESOURCE KIT] Cybersecurity Awareness Month Kit 2026 Now Available

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Equip your team with the intel they need to stay ahead of global threat actors and threats such as social engineering and AI deepfakes.

AI Did Not Invent Social Engineering But It Did Industrialize It.

This year National Social Engineering Day falls on Aug. 6. This day is designed to give us an opportunity to remind people that cybercriminals do not always need sophisticated malware, an ...

Apple Warns Users to be Wary of Unsolicited FaceTime Calls

Apple is warning users to be wary of unsolicited FaceTime calls amidst a wave of scams impersonating Apple Support, Malwarebytes reports. The scammers inform the user that there’s been ...

New Phishing Kits Use Open-Source Tools to Bypass MFA

Researchers at Lexfo are tracking three sophisticated phishing kits that were built using open-source components, primarily based on the publicly available adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) ...

Inside the OS-Aware Phishing Kit Profiling Your Device

Lead Analysts: Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran and Jeewan Singh Jalal Most phishing attacks pick a target and commit to a tactic. This one picks the tactic based on the target, which happens ...

Majority of Organizations Hit by Targeted Impersonation Attacks

Fifty-three percent of organizations have had an executive or employee impersonated in targeted social engineering attacks over the past year, according to a new report from Outtake. Just ...

Warning: ARToken Phishing Kit Automates BEC Attacks

Researchers at Cisco Talos are tracking a sophisticated phishing-as-a-service operator panel called “ARToken” that’s built on the EvilTokens phishing platform. ARToken focuses on targeted ...

Trust, Verify, Protect: Modernizing Email Security for the Cloud

Picture this: Your company just fell victim to a massive data breach. The culprit wasn't a sophisticated malware strain, a zero-day exploit, or a compromised firewall. It was a perfectly ...

Report: Social Engineering Remains a Central Part of AI-assisted Attacks

Threat actors continue to rely on social engineering as AI is incorporated into their attacks, according to ESET’s Threat Report for the first half of 2026. ESET’s Director of Threat ...