social engineering

During Social Engineer Capture the Flag contest, one of the most prominent and popular annual events at DEF CON 21, a pool of 10 men and 10 women, from diverse backgrounds and …

WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant-messaging services out there, and its huge user base (over 300 million active users) makes Whatsapp-themed spam a great way to …

Social engineering has for a while now been cyber attackers’ best bet to enter systems and compromise accounts when actual hacking doesn’t work, or when they …

A pretty convincing email phishing campaign is targeting one of the largest user bases out there – those who use Microsoft’s Windows OS – by taking advantage …

An extremely thorough phishing campaign is currently targeting American Express customers by trying to make them believe that access to their account will be restricted within …

The cross-platform Frutas RAT is being used in a new email phishing campaign targeting high-profile finance, mining, and telecom companies as well as governments in Europe and …

Hijacked social networking accounts can be monetized in a number of ways, so cyber crooks are always thinking up new ways of doing so, preferably without the user noticing. …

Secure Mentem released the Human Incident Response Service to specifically address the issue of exploiting human vulnerabilities. Some of the most noted attacks in recent …

Help desks are most commonly asked to assist users in addressing common IT problems including password resets and application and connectivity issues. Often the performance of …

Pinterest users beware: an email purportedly coming from the popular pinboard-style photo-sharing website and notifying you of a successful password reset is fake: If you …

Blizzard Entertainment has acknowledged that the notification email that has been hitting users’ inboxes and has been purportedly sent by the company is, in fact, a …

Hijacked Facebook Fan Pages are a great asset to online spammers and scammers, so it’s no wonder that at any given time there are a number of active phishing campaigns …