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

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April 30, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Brunswick Church Falls For Phishing Scam Of Almost $2 Million

Staff at St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church in Brunswick say the church was scammed out of nearly $2 million. The church said a phishing email led it to believe that a construction firm ...

April 23, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Evil TeamViewer Attacks Under the Guise of the U.S. State Department

A targeted, email-borne attack against embassy officials and government finance authorities globally is making use of a malicious attachment disguised as a top-secret U.S. document. It ...

April 23, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Spearphishing Boils Down to Basic Social Engineering

While spearphishing attacks may employ various tactics and tools, they all rely on the same underlying human weaknesses to achieve their goals, according to Asaf Cidon from Barracuda ...

April 23, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Social Engineers Earn a First

A study by nonprofit research company Jisc and the UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 100 percent of spear phishing tests against universities were able to gain ...

April 18, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Scammers Impersonate Big UK Law

The UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) warned that scammers are impersonating a London law firm, Linklaters LLP, using phony job offers. The documents purport to come from the ...

April 16, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

[SCAM OF THE WEEK]: Notre Dame Disaster Causes FireStorm Of Social Engineering And Misinformation

The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris caught fire and was barely saved from total destruction. Millions of people visit every year and hundreds of millions feel a powerful, and personal, ...

April 15, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Spycatching: Social Engineering and the FBI's Insider Threat Experience

We’ve recently shared a link to a podcast, “The Ghost and the Mole,” which revisits the infamous case of FBI Special Agent turned Russian spy Robert Hanssen. Before dismissing this as ...

April 2, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Free Tool: Phishing Reply Test Identifies Users Likely to Fall Victim to Fraudsters

Highly targeted phishing attacks, known as Business Email Compromise or CEO fraud scams have exceeded $12.5 billion in total known losses worldwide (according to the FBI). These social ...

March 16, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

"Hacking Humans" Is The 2019 No. 1 Podcast Covering Social Engineering!

Each week the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast looks behind the social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that make headlines and take a heavy toll on ...

March 14, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Credentials and Personal Data Continue to be the Primary Targets of Social Engineering Scams

Targeted attacks are increasing, with cybercriminals focused on stealing information that can be used to impersonate a user and perpetuate their scams.

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