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Social engineering is advancing fast, at the speed of generative AI. This is offering bad actors multiple new tools and techniques for researching, scoping, and exploiting organizations. In a...
The foundations for social engineering attacks – manipulating humans – might not have changed much over the years. It’s the vectors – how these techniques are deployed – that are evolving. And...
Social engineering has long been an effective tactic because of how it focuses on human vulnerabilities. There’s no brute-force ‘spray and pray’ password guessing. No scouring systems for...
We’ve entered a new era where verification must come before trust, and for good reason. Cyber threats are evolving rapidly, and one of the trends getting a fresh reboot in 2025 is the “scam...
I am always interested in new phishing tricks, and watching them spread across the ecosystem. A few days ago I started getting phishing SMS messages with a new twist. They were standard messages...
This article presents key insights from 2024 reports on the rise of phishing attacks, focusing on how advancements in AI and deepfake technology are making social engineering tactics more...
The threat actors linked to the Black Basta ransomware have been observed switching up their social engineering tactics, distributing a different set of payloads such as Zbot and DarkGate since...
North American financial institutions fielded 10 times more reports of social engineering scams in 2024 than they did a year ago, according to BioCatch. The data shows scams now represent 23% of...
This is really interesting. It’s a phishing attack targeting GitHub users, tricking them to solve a fake Captcha that actually runs a script that is copied to the command line. Clever.
“North Korean malicious cyber actors conducted research on a variety of targets connected to cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over the last several months,” the FBI has warned through a...