As we move into 2026, social engineering is shifting from a tactical security concern to a leadership and governance ...

With organizations becoming more digitally interconnected, threat actors are placing greater emphasis on manipulating people instead of breaching systems directly. One of the most deceptive and ...

AI-enabled technology enhances threat actors’ ability to engage in advanced and difficult-to-detect forms of social engineering to deceive employees and circumvent companies’ security controls.

According to Verizon’s data breach report, a full three-quarters of data breaches in the last year (74%) involved the human element. In all likelihood, this number is much higher if one analyzes the ...

Social engineering may be a term you’ve heard of – much like with phishing, it’s a method used by hackers and other bad ...

Over the last decade, social engineering cyberthreats have surged among retailers just as the sector's reliance on customer data, financial transactions and e-commerce platforms has intensified. See ...

Social engineering is present in 90% of phishing attacks today. However, business email compromise (BEC) attacks stand apart in the cybercrime industry for their emphasis on social engineering and the ...

A crypto user has lost more than $282 million worth of Bitcoin and Litecoin in one of the largest social engineering attacks ...

Social engineering raises some serious questions about data protection and compliance of accounting firms. Therefore, accounting firms should have measures to protect their IT assets against this ...

TAMPA BAY, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the establishment of National Social ...

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 ...

In March 2024, a record was set at the Four Winds Casino in Michigan for a $700,000 theft. What made this crime particularly alarming was that it was not carried out through traditional means, such as ...