Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
Michael Kan at PCMag had the scoop: A hacker is already circulating one phishing email, warning users they'll need to submit some personal information to keep the blue verified checkmark ...
We received an interesting email from Elevate Security you need to be aware of. Their recent research showed: "Social engineering attacks are growing more sophisticated every day, ...
In an interesting twist, this latest scam identified by security researchers at Avanan attempts to establish legitimacy by making the victim think the logon page is being translated.
New insight from the SANS Institute surveying 300 ethical hackers sheds some light on how they perceive your security stance – and how easy it is for them to break in despite your efforts.
Occasionally you will hear people or organizations claiming that they are on the verge of eliminating all social engineering from reaching end-users. Could it be true? Could it happen one ...
A man from Atlanta, Georgia has been convicted of running romance scams and business email compromise attacks that netted him over $9.5 million, the US Justice Department has announced.
The Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Germany's federal criminal police, raided three homes on Thursday, September 29th, in the course of an investigation of a cyber criminal operation the BKA ...
Researchers at Trend Micro warn that the social engineering potential of deepfakes is becoming an increasing concern. Deepfakes have already been successfully used in attacks, and Trend ...
Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer at Dark Reading correctly stated: "It's time to dispel notions of deepfakes as an emergent threat. All the pieces for widespread attacks are in place and ...
Setting a record for both highest count and share in volume with other types of phishing scams, response-based attacks are at their highest since 2020 and are continuing to grow.
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 ...
