Specific examples of Scattered Spider’s social engineering tactics include “impersonating employees or contractors to deceive IT help desks into granting access,” or “convincing help desk services to ...

When a teenager and his crew managed to steal $243 million in Bitcoin from a single Gemini account, it was not because they broke through firewalls or discovered a rare exploit. It was because they ...

Day Job: I help companies unlock possibilities as a blockchain visionary. Side Hustle: I help people realize what they can imagine. Social engineering has always been the most effective method used by ...

The majority of crypto exploits in the coming year won’t be caused by a zero-day bug in your favorite protocol, say crypto ...

It’s more convenient than ever for everyone to work, communicate with friends and family, and do everyday tasks like depositing a check or buying groceries digitally. The tradeoff is the requirement ...

Recent alerts from the FBI about groups like Scattered Spider have reinforced a growing reality: Today's most dangerous cyberattacks often begin with a phone call, not a phishing email. Threat actors ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Social engineering is the next cybersecurity battleground. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mass phishing is evolving into precision targeting. Discover how LLM-Powered Social Engineering uses AI to create hyper-realistic, data-driven crypto scams.

A Bitcoiner lost $91 million in a single transaction to a social engineering attack on Tuesday, with funds then sent to a privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet, according to blockchain investigator ZachXBT.