With organizations becoming more digitally interconnected, threat actors are placing greater emphasis on manipulating people instead of breaching systems directly. One of the most deceptive and ...

According to Verizon’s data breach report, a full three-quarters of data breaches in the last year (74%) involved the human element. In all likelihood, this number is much higher if one analyzes the ...

AI-enabled technology enhances threat actors’ ability to engage in advanced and difficult-to-detect forms of social engineering to deceive employees and circumvent companies’ security controls.

A sophisticated social-engineering attack led to the theft of more than $282 million in BTC and LTC, with the funds rapidly ...

A crypto user lost over $282 million in Bitcoin and Litecoin after being deceived into sharing a hardware wallet seed phrase, ...

Nick Park’s Wallace and Gromit were brought crashing into the 21st century in December 2024 with their latest adventure, Vengeance Most Fowl. The film challenges our growing dependence on smart ...

(NEXSTAR) – The Federal Bureau of Investigations on Friday issued an alert concerning Scattered Spider, a cybercriminal organization currently targeting the airline industry. The group, which is also ...

Over the last decade, social engineering cyberthreats have surged among retailers just as the sector's reliance on customer data, financial transactions and e-commerce platforms has intensified. See ...

Social engineering is present in 90% of phishing attacks today. However, business email compromise (BEC) attacks stand apart in the cybercrime industry for their emphasis on social engineering and the ...

The heist did not involve the complex hacking of either the Bitcoin Blockchain or via brute force the hardware wallet itself.

In March 2024, a record was set at the Four Winds Casino in Michigan for a $700,000 theft. What made this crime particularly alarming was that it was not carried out through traditional means, such as ...

Social engineering raises some serious questions about data protection and compliance of accounting firms. Therefore, accounting firms should have measures to protect their IT assets against this ...