The “urgent action required” ploy is a cornerstone of social engineering, exploiting our natural tendency to prioritize ...

AI is transforming the cybersecurity landscape—empowering attackers with powerful new tools while offering defenders a chance ...

The goal is to steal large amounts of confidential data in an attempt to extort the victims. Here's how it works.

While you might think of cyberattacks as highly technical affairs, social engineering manipulates the most vulnerable aspect of security: human nature. At its core, social engineering refers to ...

Researchers have discovered and analyzed a ClickFix attack that uses a fake Cloudflare ‘humanness’ check. The Cloudflare ...

Google has observed hackers claiming to be the ShinyHunters extortion group conducting social engineering attacks against ...

Trend Micro's virus analysts have detected a campaign on TikTok that instructs victims to install Infostealer malware.

The Social Security Administration gets about 390,000 calls per day, and the average wait time for those calls as of April ...

Security by design, also referred to in infosecurity jargon as shifting left, is not a new concept. Resources and guidance on ...

A new malware campaign tricks macOS users with fake Spectrum CAPTCHA sites to steal passwords and deliver Atomic Stealer ...

The breach is notable not only for its scale, but the way the hackers went about it: Bribing overseas customer support agents ...

Social engineering involves using emotional manipulation and deception to conduct a cyberattack. It’s generally easier to ...