In the world of cryptocurrency, security goes beyond just protecting your wallet with a password or private key. One of the most deceptive and increasingly dangerous threats to crypto users today is ...

Social engineering scams are characterised by their use of psychological manipulation to trick victims into handing over sensitive information, financial assets, cash, or even into undertaking actions ...

Instead of relying on advanced tools or complex scripts, experienced attackers penetrate systems and steal data using the ...

Social Engineering is a method that bad actors will use to trick people into giving them sensitive information or access. The types of information these criminals are seeking can vary. Criminals use ...

But tech alone isn’t enough. If social engineering is now 2.0, user awareness should also be 2.0. Teams need exposure to ...

AI social engineering is just getting started. Employers must make employees aware of these risks and train them to exercise their security intuition. Here’s how. Generative AI technology such as ...

Deepfakes—AI‑generated video or audio—are used by attackers to impersonate executives, family members and government officials, convincing victims to send money or share sensitive information. We all ...

SYDNEY — Properly trained staff, not technology, is the best protection against social engineering attacks on sensitive information, according to security consultant and celebrity hacker Kevin Mitnick ...

Cyber crime group ShinyHunters has received global attention after Google urged 2.5 billion users to tighten their security ...

A campaign of cyber attacks orchestrated via social engineering against users’ Salesforce instances is now being attributed to the ShinyHunters cyber crime gang with growing confidence, and the list ...

Automated data security company Varonis Systems Inc. announced today that it plans to acquire phishing protection company ...