Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, social engineering has undergone significant transformations over the years, propelled by advancements in technology. This article delves into the historical shifts in social engineering tactics and explores how adversaries embrace new technologies to achieve their objectives.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Social engineering is advancing fast, at the speed of generative AI. This article explores some of the impacts of this GenAI-fueled acceleration. This is offering bad actors multiple new tools and techniques for researching, scoping, and exploiting organizations.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

By now you may be guessing what the psychic and the social engineer have in common. Both use techniques such as using social cues, making broad statements, and using probability to create the illusion of credibility. Similarly, a professional social engineer must exhibit confidence and never break pretext.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

What is social engineering? Social engineering is the art of exploiting human psychology, rather than technical hacking techniques, to gain access to buildings, systems, or data. Learn what makes these 6 social engineering techniques so effective. | To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Learn what makes these 6 social engineering techniques so effective. | To read this article in full, please click here Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Researchers warn of a social engineering campaign by the North Korean APT group known as Kimsuky that attempts to steal email credentials and plant malware. Operating since at least 2012, the group often employs targeted phishing and social engineering tactics to gather intelligence and access sensitive information."

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Identity IQ

JUNE 20, 2023

What Are Social Engineering Scams? Thanks, Your CEO This common scenario is just one example of the many ways scammers may attempt to trick you through social engineering scams. Read on to learn how to recognize social engineering attacks, their consequences, and tactics to avoid falling for them.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2023

North Korea-linked APT Kimsuky has been linked to a social engineering campaign aimed at experts in North Korean affairs. SentinelLabs researchers uncovered a social engineering campaign by the North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky that is targeting experts in North Korean affairs. shanumedia[.]com/pdf/ul/ji78fghJHKtgfLKJIO/s2.php?

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

To read this article in full, please click here

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In this article, we will dive deep into the sea of phishing and vishing, sharing real-world stories and insights we’ve encountered during social engineering tests to highlight the importance of awareness. Run regular social engineering penetration tests. The customer didn’t provide any other information. .”

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 28, 2022

Blame it on pandemic fatigue, remote work or just too much information, but employees appear to be lowering their guard when it comes to detecting social engineering tricks. Attackers were more successful with their social engineering schemes last year than they were a year earlier, according to Proofpoint.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Another article : Patches are not immediately available at the time of writing.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

A recent article released by cybersecurity and antivirus firm Bitdefender shows that 8.4 Phishing scams skyrocketed as citizens self-isolated during the lockdown, and social-engineering schemes defrauded Internet users of millions.”. For comparison, that’s a 273% increase over the first two quarters of 2019 combined.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Unfortunately, in some organizations, employees who fall victim to a social engineering ploy that leads to a ransomware attack are blamed for their actions. Social engineering attacks, like phishing emails, are common conduits of ransomware, and have become more sophisticated. Victim shaming is never OK.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 20, 2022

I will discuss in a future article what roadmaps should contain in order to be most likely to yield successful Zero Trust adoption efforts. Consider the case of ransomware, for example, and the fact that the number of successful ransomware attacks has skyrocketed in recent years. This post is sponsored by VMware.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2025

I realize that may sound like something trivial to steer clear from, but apparently its not because the social engineering behind it is pretty sophisticated. It usually starts on a website that promises visitors some kind of popular content: Movies, music, pictures, news articles, you name it.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Social engineering. Social engineering The easiest way for any hacker to break into any device is for the user to open the door themselves. Making that happen is easier said than done, of course, but it's the goal of most forms of social engineering attacks. To read this article in full, please click here

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 18, 2024

The article includes a list of suspicious patterns, and another list of security best practices.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Reliance on VPNs for remote access is putting enterprises at significant risk as social engineering , ransomware , and malware attacks continue to advance, exposing businesses to greater risk, according to a new report by cloud security company Zscaler. To read this article in full, please click here

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The State of Security

MAY 5, 2022

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks which use a variety of social engineering and phishing techniques to break into accounts and trick companies into transferring large amounts of money into the hands of criminals.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 6, 2021

Criminals may utilize all sorts of social engineering approaches, as well as technical exploits, in order to deliver their ransomware into their intended targets. This article is an updated version of a piece that I originally wrote in 2017, but which remains as true now as it was then.).

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

While ransomware attacks emphasize how criminals monetize their ability to socially engineer individuals to click that link or attachment, nation states are quietly working to fleece the IP and gain foothold within targets of interest. To read this article in full, please click here

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Joseph Steinberg

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

While I will describe in another article why many of the concerns with AI that seem to be commonly discussed in the media should actually not be of grave concern to anyone, I will first publish a series of piece discussing what I DO consider to be the biggest dangers of AI.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 30, 2021

The education sector is a top target for cybercriminals, and faces “an unusually large percentage” of social engineering attacks, according to the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Whether it’s advanced phishing techniques, credential stuffing, or even credentials compromised through social engineering or breaches of a third-party service, credentials are easily the most vulnerable point in defending corporate systems. To read this article in full, please click here

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 24, 2023

This form of social engineering attack is gaining popularity among cybercriminals eager to steal your data. In this article, we will find out what quishing is, how it works, and how to protect ourselves from it. Are you aware of QR code phishing or “quishing”?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2024

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape. Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape.

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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

As my colleague Elena explained in an article, Sodinokibi ransomware is a Ransomware-as-a-Service. The group uses a special social engineering move as the ones who spread the […]. REvil ransomware has fully returned and is attacking new victims and publishing stolen files on a data leak site.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 27, 2023

The five emerging cyber-attack vectors the speakers covered were adversarial AI, ChatGPT-powered social engineering, third-party developer, SEO, and paid advertising attacks. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

Most phishing attacks are less about the technology and more about social engineering. To read this article in full, please click here It’s amazing how easily humans are manipulated when emotions are triggered.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 22, 2023

“BEC attacks stand apart in the cybercrime industry for their emphasis on social engineering and the art of deception,” said Vasu Jakkal, corporate vice president of security, in a blog post. To read this article in full, please click here Successful BEC attacks cost organizations hundreds of millions of dollars annually.”

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Oh, and the bad guys go looking for these open doors using automated scanning tools, software exploits, social engineering scams, or anything else that works. To read this article in full, please click here Because every IT widget represents a potential entry point for cyber-adversaries.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 13, 2021

Another news article. The real risk isn’t that AI-generated phishing emails are as good as human-generated ones, it’s that they can be generated at much greater scale. Defcon presentation and slides.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

Security researchers have used the GPT-3 natural language generation model and the ChatGPT chatbot based on it to show how such deep learning models can be used to make social engineering attacks such as phishing or business email compromise scams harder to detect and easier to pull off.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

Editor's note: This article, originally published on August 7, 2018, has been updated to include new information on phishing kit features. Phishing is a social attack, directly related to social engineering. To read this article in full, please click here

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