Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
Researchers at SentinelOne have warned that North Korea’s Lazarus Group is using phony Crypto.com job offers to distribute macOS malware. The researchers aren’t sure how the lures are ...
Despite the pandemic being largely considered over, a recent Private Industry Notification focused on the Healthcare industry indicates that organizations should remain vigilant.
Optus, one of Australia's largest telecommunications companies, recently suffered a data breach that affected over 9.8 million customers.
A convict serving twenty-five years in South Carolina for voluntary manslaughter and attempted armed robbery, Darnell Kahn, has now also been convicted in a US court on Federal sextortion ...
According to nearly every study conducted over the last decade, social engineering is involved in the vast majority of cyber attacks. The figures range from about 30% to 90% of all ...
Luring victims using a realistic- and legitimate-looking fake browser window to steal Steam accounts, this new type of social engineering may be a sign of things to come.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert warning of an increase in phishing and other social engineering attacks against healthcare payment processors.
Bank of America recently sent a customer service email warning users to watch out for this new phishing attack.
It was all over the news, but ZDNet's Eileen Yu was one of the first. -- "Hacker is believed to have breached Uber's entire network in a social engineering attack, which one security ...
Security researchers at Cisco Talos have issued an update on the cyberattack Cisco sustained earlier this year. The attack began with a phishing attack against a Cisco employee, which led ...
Queries of reported cases to Singapore Police reveal a rise in scam costs by 59% as phishing cases double and job-related scams increase 7x from the first half of 2021.
Researchers at Vade warn that an email phishing campaign is informing users that their Instagram account is eligible to receive a blue verification badge. If a user clicks the link, ...
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (DHS OIG) has issued an alert to warn that scammers are posing as DHS employees.
Researchers at NordVPN have published the results of a survey that found that 84% of Americans have experienced some form of social engineering, although only 54% have heard of the term ...
Scammers created a deepfake video of Patrick Hillmann, Chief Communications Officer at cryptocurrency exchange Binance, in order to scam people. Hillmann explained in a blog post that he ...
If you've been approached by recruiters on LinkedIn for a potential job opportunity, you may want to pay attention to this recent scam.
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Most of us are all too familiar with vishing, the scam voice calls that offer to erase your credit card debt, to extend your automobile warranty, to get you to donate to that worthy cause ...
Tailgating or piggybacking is an old but effective social engineering technique to gain physical access to restricted areas, according to Rahul Awati at TechTarget. Tailgating is when a ...
