Social engineering is arguably one of the most potent and persistent forms of cybercrime. There’s a reason why social engineering is so popular with cybercriminals: Hacking people is a lot simpler ...

According to the latest Netskope Cloud and Threat Report, during Q1 2023, social engineering continued to be a dominant malware infiltration technique, with attackers abusing search engines, email, ...

Organizations invest heavily in technology, yet today’s most costly breaches are increasingly slipping through traditional defenses. The reason? Attackers target human psychology, now supercharged by ...

To get an idea of just how good hackers got at social engineering in 2019, consider a cyber-attack our threat researchers encountered earlier in the year. Attackers breached a G Suite email account ...

Vishing, short for voice phishing, is a type of social engineering scam in which attackers use phone calls or voice messages ...

These days, the cybercrime ecosystem functions more and more like a subscription-based technology sector. Similar to the "as-a-service" model of legitimate cloud services, crime-as-a-service (CaaS) ...

Social Engineering Attacks Surge in 2025, Becoming Top Cybersecurity Threat Your email has been sent A new report from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 highlights how attackers are shifting away from ...

Cybercriminals are investing in deepfake technology to make social engineering and authentication bypass campaigns more effective. Here are strategies for defending against the most notable deepfake ...

It’s no surprise firewalls and encryption are instrumental to help defend against cyberattacks, but those tools can’t defend against one of the largest cybersecurity threats: people. Social ...

The financially motivated hacking group Octo Tempest, responsible for attacking MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment in September, has been branded "one of the most dangerous financial ...

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 ...