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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.

Athletes Are Increasingly Targeted by Social Engineering Attacks

Scammers are increasingly targeting athletes with advanced social engineering attacks, the Guardian reports. The Guardian cites a recent report from Ernst & Young that found that ...

Ransomware Attacks Drive a Surge in Cyber Insurance Claims

Cyber insurance claims surged by 40% over the past eighteen months, while ransomware payments have dropped by 44%, according to a new report from Cowbell Cyber. The three most common ...

Perry Carpenter KB4-CON 2026 Q&A: Deepfakes & Deception

In just a couple years, deepfakes have gone from cartoonishly silly and largely academic exercises to sophisticated audio and video creations with the potential to trick just about anyone ...

Free Gift Fallacy: How Attackers Harvest Credit Cards via Fake Surveys

Lead Analysts: Jeewan Singh Jalal, Dilsha Dines, Karthikeyan Dharmaraj

When Global Conflict Becomes a Cyber Weapon: How Iran Tensions and Other Stressful Events Fuel Social Engineering Attacks

When geopolitical tensions rise, whether due to conflicts like the current one involving Iran or other global flashpoints, many organizations focus on physical security, supply chains, or ...

Alert: Extortion Groups Are Using Phishing Kits to Automate Their Attacks

Researchers at Push Security have analyzed a phishing platform used by organized criminal threat actors like ShinyHunters and BlackFile, finding more than 400 domains linked to attacks ...

Report: The Tycoon 2FA Phishing Kit Has Evolved

The Tycoon 2FA phishing-as-a-service platform is now using OAuth device code phishing to compromise devices that are protected by multifactor authentication, according to eSentire’s ...

KnowBe4 CEO Bryan Palma Q&A From KB4-CON 2026

By Bree Fowler, contributor Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the digital threat landscape and how security professionals fight back against the cybercriminals that use ...

How Agentic AI and Automation Are Changing Cybersecurity

There is no question that AI is changing cybersecurity in a massive way. In many respects, its impact is comparable to the rise of the internet. AI tools are helping organizations improve ...

AI Alone Won’t Stop the Breach: Why Email Security Needs Humans-on-the-Loop

2026 has officially become the year of speed, scale and support. The delta between a phishing email landing and a full organizational compromise has shrunk to mere seconds.