While business leaders and pundits spend time and spill ink arguing about where AI is on the hype cycle, cybercriminals have been busy launching devastating, AI-powered attacks. AI-generated social ...

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.

In the world of cryptocurrency, security goes beyond just protecting your wallet with a password or private key. One of the most deceptive and increasingly dangerous threats to crypto users today is ...

Unlike attacks that target software or hardware, social engineering exploits human behavior. And unfortunately, it is often the most effective route. Social engineering exploits human psychology ...

Social engineering is a form of cyber attack that leverages human psychology rather than technical vulnerabilities. By exploiting human emotions and cognitive biases, attackers can manipulate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Vakulov is a cybersecurity expert focused on consumer security. Mar 29, 2025, 02:10pm EDT Mar 29, 2025, 02:13pm EDT Text sign ...

Organizations invest heavily in technology, yet today’s most costly breaches are increasingly slipping through traditional defenses. The reason? Attackers target human psychology, now supercharged by ...

Physical social engineering has become a big play with social engineers, penetration testers, and red teamers. Gaining access to internal network resources can be compared to walking past the firewall ...

Instead of relying on advanced tools or complex scripts, experienced attackers penetrate systems and steal data using the most effective weapon of all: social engineering. Social engineering lies at ...

Emerging threats for accounting firms have steadily risen over the years, with more and more business emails being compromised, leading to an annual loss of around $2.4 billion. Just a few months back ...

Human resources (HR) platform provider Workday has become the latest large organisation to fall victim to a cyber attack originating through a third-party supplier, as the impact of a wave of cyber ...