Are you susceptible to a ‘social engineering’ attack?

Specific examples of Scattered Spider’s social engineering tactics include “impersonating employees or contractors to deceive IT help desks into granting access,” or “convincing help desk services to ...
Security Info Watch

2025 Threat Trends: How Social Engineering, VPN Exploits, and Living-Off-the-Land Attacks Redefined the Cyber Threat Landscape

The lessons learned this past year are that the bad guys are not outpacing technology; rather, they are outmaneuvering people ...
Crowdfund Insider

Betterment Discloses Social Engineering Attack Behind Recent Data Breach and Fraudulent Messages

On Jan 12, investing and savings platform Betterment revealed that a sophisticated social engineering attack was responsible ...
BizTech

How SMBs Must Manage Rising Ransomware and Social-Engineering Attacks

Dave Nyczepir is a senior editor at BizTech. “I think the chief reason that a lot of SMBs get attacked is that they're targets of opportunity,” says John Shier, field CISO for threat intelligence at ...
CSOonline

You should be aware of these latest social engineering trends

Instead of relying on advanced tools or complex scripts, experienced attackers penetrate systems and steal data using the most effective weapon of all: social engineering. Social engineering lies at ...
WGN Radio

Are you susceptible to a ‘social engineering’ attack?

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – The Federal Bureau of ...