Here’s the scenario: An employee in your accounting department receives an email that appears to be from the CEO. The email requests an urgent wire transfer to a vendor to close a time-sensitive deal.

Social engineering is unique in that the victim is not consciously aware that their actions are wrong when being targetted Social engineering attack lifecycle The telephone is a popular channel for ...

The Axios attack has highlighted the sophistication, scalability, and industrialization of social engineering attacks. Late last month, the NPM package of Axios, an extremely popular JavaScript HTTP ...

It is the second long-term social-engineering attack this month, after the $280 million exploit of the Drift Protocol. Crypto wallet Zerion revealed that North Korean-affiliated hackers used AI in a ...

Social engineering is often described as a cybersecurity issue, but that framing increasingly misses the point. The most effective social engineering attacks today do not rely on technical exploits or ...