SecureWorld News

JULY 17, 2025

The result is a wave of new schemes that combine social engineering with digital forgery: Executive deepfake fraud: Fraudsters impersonate senior executives (CEO, CFO, etc.) Similarly, the CEO of advertising giant WPP was targeted via a deepfake voice message on WhatsApp. It's essentially social engineering supercharged by AI.

Banking

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

These tools can also answer an endless array of factual questions, much like the separate AI tool Perplexity, which advertises itself not as a search engine, but as the worlds first answer engine. Importantly, the attack methods here are not new. Instead, theyve simply become easier to scale with the use of AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2025

A malicious generative AI chatbot dubbed "GhostGPT" is being advertised to cybercriminals on underground forums as a tool for more quickly and efficiently creating malware, running BEC attacks, and other nefarious activities, lowering the barrier for less-skilled hackers to launch attacks.

Advertising

SecureList

AUGUST 13, 2025

This level of personalization dramatically increases the effectiveness of social engineering, making it difficult for even tech-savvy users to spot these targeted scams. These might include suspicious links leading to fraudulent or advertising pages, or requests to be granted admin access to groups or channels.

Phishing

Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

After entering their credentials, victims are social engineered by the crooks to type a security code that was sent to their email address. In that same report, the FBI advises consumers to check the URL to make sure the site is authentic before clicking on an advertisement.

Phishing

SecureList

OCTOBER 23, 2024

List of in-the-wild 0-days caught and reported by Kaspersky over the past 10 years Social activity What never ceases to impress us is how much effort Lazarus APT puts into their social engineering campaigns. On February 20, 2024, the attackers began their campaign, advertising their game on X.

Engineering

Security Through Education

JUNE 2, 2025

They may advertise a seemingly lucrative business opportunity for their company, drawing unsuspecting targets to apply. Visit social-engineer.org for expert tips, tools, and resources to stay secure. Written by Josten Pea Human Risk Analyst, Social-Engineer, LLC Through impersonation: Scammers have gotten creative.

Scams

Penetration Testing

JULY 9, 2025

Its distribution now spans: Fake or cracked software downloads Spear phishing job scams, targeting high-value crypto holders and freelancers Once inside, victims are socially engineered to enter system passwords under the guise of enabling screen sharing or installing job-related software.

Malware

Cisco Security

JULY 7, 2025

The astonishing accumulation of personal information available from data brokers and collected from a fusion of advertising and social media has made social engineering attacks much more effective. Attacks come from actors that are often funded or otherwise supported covertly by nation states.

Cyber Risk

Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. And while financial costs may be a factor, individual victims may face targeted phishing campaigns, social engineering schemes, identity theft, and damage to credit.   Think you've been involved in a data breach?

Passwords

SecureList

APRIL 21, 2025

Lumma has also been observed using exploit kits, social engineering, and compromised websites to extend its reach and evade detection by security solutions. The attackers clone these websites and inject malicious advertisements into the cloned page that redirect users to a malicious CAPTCHA.

Malware

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This underscores the importance of having additional compensating controls and educating employees on the risks associated with phishing and other social engineering attacks. On October 18, 2024, a user on XSS advertised an “Advanced Office 365 Tutorial” for BEC.

Cyber Attacks

Zero Day

JULY 9, 2025

An incessant drumbeat of advice about how to choose and use strong passwords and how not to fall prey to social engineering attacks has done little to keep threat actors at bay.  Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use All rights reserved.

Passwords

Security Boulevard

MARCH 5, 2025

ChatGPT-Based Mutation Services: By mid-2023, underground forums began discussing and advertising custom AI models like WormGPT and FraudGPT fine-tuned for malicious tasks. This blog examines the first vector: AI-Generated Polymorphic Malware.

Malware

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

But with all the combined information about a person, it paints a very complete picture that insurance companies, advertisers, and even cybercriminals can use to their advantage.

Social Engineering

Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. And while financial costs may be a factor, individual victims may face targeted phishing campaigns, social engineering schemes, identity theft, and damage to credit.   Think you've been involved in a data breach?

Passwords

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

AI-powered social engineering makes scams more convincing, while stolen passwords enable criminals to log into corporate networks and move laterally unnoticed. Every time you log in, shop, or interact online, businesses, data brokers, and advertisers store, analyze, and monetize fragments of your identity.

Authentication

Zero Day

JULY 24, 2025

" "We must ensure that free speech flourishes in the era of AI and that AI procured by the Federal government objectively reflects truth rather than social engineering agendas," the plan says.  Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use All rights reserved.

Artificial Intelligence

eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Social engineering is a common technique that cybercriminals use to lure their victims into a false sense of security. As social engineering tactics become more advanced, it’s important to know how to identify them in the context of cybersecurity. Social engineering in cybersecurity attacks.

Social Engineering

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 25, 2024

During the investigation, we discovered a wider trend: a campaign of escalated social engineering tactics originally associated with the ransomware group “Black Basta.” Black Basta Email Spam Campaign We have observed several advertisements on the dark web offering email spam services, which are commonly sold for approximately $10–500.

Social Engineering

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

From there, fraudulent call center agents will social engineer their victims in order to extract money from them. The perpetrators are buying Google ads to lure in their victims and redirect them to bogus pages hosted on GitHub , the developer and code repository platform owned by Microsoft.

Advertising

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In almost every category — from epic breaches and ransomware to cybercrime justice and increasingly aggressive phishing and social engineering scams — 2020 was a year that truly went to eleven. But it was hardly a dull one for computer security news junkies.

Scams

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Allen said a typical voice phishing or “vishing” attack by this group involves at least two perpetrators: One who is social engineering the target over the phone, and another co-conspirator who takes any credentials entered at the phishing page and quickly uses them to log in to the target company’s VPN platform in real-time.

Phishing

The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Classiscam campaigns initially started out on classified sites, on which scammers placed fake advertisements and used social engineering techniques to convince users to pay for goods by transferring money to bank cards," Group-IB said in a new report. The Classiscam scam-as-a-service program has reaped the criminal actors $64.5

Scams

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The accused allegedly developed and marketed a series of cryptocurrency applications that were advertised as tools to help people manage their crypto holdings. In reality, prosecutors say, the programs were malware or downloaded malware after the applications were installed.

Cryptocurrency

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners to phishing and other social engineering attacks. Image: @Pressmaster on Shutterstock.

Encryption

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

“Another social engineering technique the threat actor uses to lure the employee into interacting with the email is giving the messages urgency, asking the recipient to review them or they will be deleted after three days.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Social Engineering

CSO Magazine

APRIL 27, 2023

The five emerging cyber-attack vectors the speakers covered were adversarial AI, ChatGPT-powered social engineering, third-party developer, SEO, and paid advertising attacks. To read this article in full, please click here

Social Engineering

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 25, 2024

During the investigation, we discovered a wider trend: a campaign of escalated social engineering tactics originally associated with the ransomware group “Black Basta.” Black Basta Email Spam Campaign We have observed several advertisements on the dark web offering email spam services, which are commonly sold for approximately $10–500.

Social Engineering

Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

SocialEngineered.net is a forum dedicated to social engineering discussions, it has been compromised data of its users was leaked on a hacker forum. SocialEngineered.net, the forum dedicated to social engineering topics, announced it has suffered a data breach two weeks ago. Pierluigi Paganini.

Hacking

Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2021

News article : Most troublingly, Activision says that the “cheat” tool has been advertised multiple times on a popular cheating forum under the title “new COD hack.” ” (Gamers looking to flout the rules will typically go to such forums to find new ways to do so.)

Software

Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Voice phishing is a form of criminal phone fraud, using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and financial information for the purpose of financial reward. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Social Engineering

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

Social Engineering

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The man acknowledged having targeted friends, co-workers, and family members, he used social engineering tricks and also used malware to compromise victims’ systems. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Identity Theft

Security Through Education

JANUARY 26, 2022

Marketers utilize aggregate data , collected from online purchases and website visits, alongside social engineering to keep you purchasing, downloading, and revisiting. Aggregate Data, Algorithms, and Social Engineering = Influence. Aggregate Data, Algorithms, and Social Engineering = Influence. Not at all.

Marketing

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address.

Identity Theft

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 2, 2021

Meanwhile, a digital advertising company named Reindeer from New York is trending on Google for accidental data exposure. The post Data breach news trending on Google Search Engine appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. million files from a mis-configured Amazon S3 Bucket.

Data breaches