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

Cybersecurity company Lookout Inc. today announced the launch of Smishing AI, an artificial intelligence-powered solution that aims to stop mobile-based social attacks that target people rather than ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...