We have been on the social engineering (aka Human Risk Management or Human Engineering beat for a while - providing resources to our readership and the OODA Network regularly. Those resources are …
GitHub Warns of North Korean Social Engineering Attacks Targeting Tech Firm Employees
GitHub observed a North Korean threat actor targeting technology firm employees in a new low-volume social engineering campaign. The hackers invite certain employees to collaborate on GitHub …
2,000 arrests in crackdown on social engineering and business email scams
Interpol has announced a major crackdown on social engineering campaigns that led to the arrest of 2,000 individuals. Interpol stated that the raid occurred over the span of two months at 1,700 …
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GoDaddy staff fall prey to social engineering scam in cryptocurrency exchange attack wave
GoDaddy employees have allegedly fallen victim to a series of social engineering phishing scams that led them to facilitate attacks on multiple cryptocurrency exchanges. The scam duped employees into …
New Social Engineering Event to Train Business Pros on Human Hacking
Chris Hadnagy, the founder and chief human hacker for the firm behind the Social Engineering Capture the Flag contest at DEF CON, has announced that he is launching the first social engineering event …
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Social Engineering Forum Hacked, Data Shared on Leak Sites
Earlier this month, a threat actor breached SocialEngineered.net, an online community for discussing social engineering. The hackers exploited a vulnerability in the MyBB software the forum was …
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Survey: Hackers acknowledge Windows flaws but prefer social engineering tricks
According to a recent survey by network security firm Thycotic, 60% of respondents answered that social engineering was the fastest way to compromise users,” even as 50% of surveyed Black Hat …
UK CERT Introduction to Social Engineering
Social engineering is one of the most prolific and effective means of gaining access to secure systems and obtaining sensitive information, yet requires minimal technical knowledge. Attacks vary from …
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Vista Aims to Stop Hackers’ Social Engineering Ploys
Microsoft says the Windows operating system software is not the weakest link in desktop security, and contends that Windows Vista will help limit the greatest vulnerability of all—users' bad …
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Social Engineering Gets Smarter
Here's a new phish: An attacker recently created a fake phishing message and, posing as a bank customer, forwarded it to the bank's security officer. When the security manager clicked the link to find …