Social Engineering

The French Rugby Federation (FFR) has become the latest high-profile sports organization to fall victim to a sophisticated phishing campaign, prompting a formal lawsuit and raising...

A disturbing new case reveals the dangerous evolution of social engineering from digital fraud to real-world physical crime. A convicted cybercriminal, while serving a federal sent...

A sophisticated new phishing campaign is exploiting global e-commerce reliance by using AI-generated images of parcels to create highly convincing fake delivery notifications. Secu...

In an unprecedented move signaling a major shift in private-sector cooperation, eight of the world's leading technology companies—including Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, OpenA...

Law enforcement agencies and governments worldwide are launching coordinated offensives against the rising tide of social engineering fraud. In India, the UT Chandigarh Cyber Cell ...

Recent police operations in India have exposed a sophisticated, multi-layered cyber-enabled fraud industry targeting high-stakes government examinations. In separate but related ca...

A new wave of state-sponsored cyber operations is successfully compromising end-to-end encrypted (E2E) messaging platforms by targeting the human element rather than the cryptograp...

A new wave of sophisticated social engineering campaigns is exploiting people's pursuit of health, wellness, and entertainment to distribute malware, moving beyond traditional fina...

A sophisticated, coordinated phishing campaign is simultaneously targeting customers of major German financial institutions, including Commerzbank and the Volksbanken Raiffeisenban...

Tax season has become a prime hunting ground for cybercriminals employing increasingly sophisticated government impersonation scams. This analysis reveals how threat actors have ev...

Threat actors are rapidly weaponizing generative AI to create highly convincing and emotionally manipulative social engineering campaigns at unprecedented scale. Recent intelligenc...

A sophisticated wave of social engineering scams is targeting consumers during high-demand cultural moments, from major music festivals to peak travel seasons. Security analysts re...

A sophisticated new wave of SMS phishing (smishing) campaigns is exploiting mandatory citizen-government interactions, representing a significant evolution in social engineering ta...

A new wave of highly targeted phishing campaigns is demonstrating a dangerous evolution in social engineering tactics. Security researchers are tracking two distinct but thematical...

A sophisticated global phishing campaign is exploiting public trust in government institutions by impersonating traffic police and tax authorities across multiple continents. Secur...

Google is developing enhanced protections within its Messages app to combat a sophisticated new threat: hardware-based 'SMS Blasters' used to bypass traditional spam filters. These...

A new wave of disruptive cyberattacks is demonstrating the severe real-world consequences of ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) scams, with critical public sector entit...

A sophisticated new attack campaign is exploiting Microsoft Teams to impersonate corporate IT support, tricking employees into installing remote access tools that lead to full syst...

A sophisticated, large-scale phishing campaign attributed to Russian state-sponsored actors is compromising the accounts of high-value targets on encrypted messaging platforms Sign...

Despite advanced cybersecurity defenses, low-tech, high-volume phishing scams exploiting basic human desires for free goods or official documents remain devastatingly effective. Th...