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

Military Personnel Vulnerable to Fraud

US military personnel and veterans have lost more than $822 million to scams since 2017, according to researchers at AtlasVPN. The researchers analyzed data from the US Federal Trade ...

Android Trojan Goes After Facebook Accounts

A new Android Trojan has hijacked more than 10,000 Facebook accounts by stealing session cookies, according to researchers at Zimperium. The malware uses social engineering to trick users ...

Spear Phishing Becomes a Bigger Problem as the Average Organization is Targeted 700 Times a Year

With threat actors honing their trickery skills to craft the perfect email used to fool a would-be victim recipient, new data shows cybercriminals are stepping up their game on a number ...

Cyber Insurance Industry Wrongly Hedging Its Bets on MFA

Because of ransomware attacks, I have been covering the cybersecurity insurance industry for a few years, including here. I even have a whole chapter dedicated to cybersecurity insurance ...

BEC Attacks Are Targeting Lower-Level Employees

A new report from Barracuda found that most business email compromise (BEC) attacks are now targeting employees who aren’t in executive or financial roles.

How Social Engineers Use Social Media

People need to be aware of how their social media posts can be used against them, according to Darren Millar, senior vice president of operations at PiiQ Media. In an article for ...

Mint Mobile, Porting Numbers, and Identity Theft

US telecommunications company Mint Mobile warned some users that their phone numbers had temporarily been ported to another carrier by an unauthorized individual, which allowed the ...

Nearly Every Organization Has Had an Insider-Caused Data Breach in the Last Year

Whether it’s from an accidental leak of data or falling victim to a phishing attack, new data from email security vendor Egress puts the insider’s role in breaches into critical ...

Facebook Disrupts Iranian Social Engineering Operation

Facebook has taken down an operation by Iranian hackers targeting military, defense, and aerospace entities, particularly focused on the US.

Cryptocurrencies and Email Extortion Trends

Researchers at GreatHorn have found that 98.7% of extortion emails ask for payment in Bitcoin. Most of these emails aren’t targeted, but enough people will likely fall for them that the ...