Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
Sextortion scam emails are circulating which claim that a popular adult site has been hacked, allowing an attacker to record videos of users through their webcams, according to Lawrence ...
A friend was sent this email and he forwarded it to me. It's a brilliant new social engineering phishing scam. It will sail through all your spam / malware filters and email protection ...
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 ...
Stephanie Carruthers, People Hacker for IBM- X-Force Red wrote an excellent post about the need for red-teaming and pentesting your own organization. I'll quote the first paragraph or so, ...
The context of contacting the victim via a credible website may be all that was needed to trick one job seeker into installing malware on the network of a bank.
Scammers stole $150,000 from a woman during a real estate transaction last year, according to Lisa Vaas at Naked Security. Mireille Appert, a Swiss woman who lives in the United States, ...
Global law firm Dentons Canada LLP is locked in a $1.7-millon dispute with its insurer after staff at the firm’s Vancouver office fell victim to an alleged social engineering attack.
Email phishing is a top threat to organizations because it works so well, according to Neil Wynne, principal and analyst for secure business enablement at Gartner. Wynne told Stephanie ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Now that it's the holiday season, malicious parties across the globe are exploiting Amazon's good name and popularity with consumers to ...
From the Front Lines of Incident Response, the CrowdStrike Services Cyber Intrusion Casebook 2018 offers some compelling stories how threat actors are continuously adopting new means to ...
A new email extortion scam is making the rounds, threatening that someone has planted bombs within the recipient's building that will be detonated unless a hefty bitcoin ransom is paid by ...
According to a report from email security & protection vendor Agari, the cybercriminal group dubbed London Blue are directing their latest scams at very specific finance execs.
A scam campaign is promising free Volkswagen car giveaways to trick social media users into visiting third-party ad servers, according to researchers at Sucuri.
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CEOs can be the weakest link in an organization’s security posture, according to Mimecast’s Matthew Gardiner. Carole Theriault talked to Gardiner last week on The CyberWire’s Hacking ...
According to a new survey, social media sharing – and oversharing – provides cybercriminals with important personal details to commit identity theft, fraud, and more.
You receive a message apparently from a Facebook friend telling you they received another friend request from you. They go on to diagnose the "situation," tell you that you’ve been ...
The latest data from SecurityScorecard shows the retail industry’s security stance is at an all-time low, and is particularly susceptible to social engineering attacks. The retail ...
Despite the presence of application and OS vulnerabilities – both new and old – hackers prefer to leverage social engineering as their preferred attack method.
This thing is a nightmare that escaped into daylight. The Russian GRU—aka Fancy Bear—probably was riveted reading the Wikileaks CIA Vault 7 UEFI Rootkit docs (PDF) and built one of these ...
