Social engineering attacks made up 36% of intrusions from May 2024 to May 2025, surpassing malware and exploits as the top ...

Cyber crime group ShinyHunters has received global attention after Google urged 2.5 billion users to tighten their security ...

The hackers work by impersonating IT and human-resources personnel to trick employees into sharing their personal information ...

Instead of relying on advanced tools or complex scripts, experienced attackers penetrate systems and steal data using the ...

Phishing campaigns using ConnectWise ScreenConnect highlight the growing danger of AI-driven social engineering.

Google revealed that a cybercriminal group known as the ShinyHunters hacked a database of their accounts through the ...

DeepSeek’s January 2025 database leak exposed 1M+ logs via misconfigured ClickHouse, risking chat histories and keys.

A teenage hacker purportedly managed to gain access to both Uber and Rockstar Games’ internal databases by deceiving a company employee using a social engineering attack.

Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT said that an undisclosed victim of a social engineering scam lost 783 BTC ($89 million) on August ...

Hackers claim live access to AT&T systems affecting 24M users, enabling SIM swapping attacks and real-time SMS interception.

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