Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, social engineering has undergone significant transformations over the years, propelled by advancements in technology. From traditional methods to the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), malicious actors continually adapt and leverage emerging tools to exploit vulnerabilities.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Trends in cybersecurity across 2024 showed less malware and phishing, though more social engineering. CrowdStrike offers tips on securing your business.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Crooks created a new tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) for creating fraudulent invoices used for wire fraud and BEC. These posts introduced a new tool that incorporates Artificial Intelligence (AI) for creating fraudulent invoices used for wire fraud and Business E-Mail Compromise (BEC).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2025

Kev Breen , senior director of threat research at Immersive Labs , said privilege escalation bugs assume an attacker already has initial access to a compromised host, typically through a phishing attack or by using stolen credentials.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries at an unprecedented pace, and its impact on cybersecurity is no exception. One of the report's most pressing concerns is the role of Generative AI in social engineering attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2025

The report details how threat actors harness automation, artificial intelligence, and advanced social engineering to scale their operations. Their methods include using generative AI to create convincing phishing emails , fraudulent websites, and fictitious profiles designed to deceive and infiltrate organizational defenses.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Phishing is one of the most common social engineering tactics cybercriminals use to target their victims. Cybersecurity experts are discussing a new trend in the cybercrime community called phishing-as-a-service. Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS). Related: Utilizing humans as security sensors. Rising popularity.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And yet, if artificial intelligence achieves what is called an agentic model in 2025, novel and boundless attacks could be within reach, as AI tools take on the roles of agents that independently discover vulnerabilities, steal logins, and pry into accounts. That could change in 2025.

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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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Social engineering techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated and are exploiting multiple emerging means, such as deep fakes. The increasing use of videoconferencing platforms and the various forms of remote work also adopted in the post-emergency covid make interpersonal collaborations increasingly virtual.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 12, 2025

Category Awareness, Social Enginering Risk Level Phishing emails are getting harder to detect. What is phishing, and why is it such a big deal?" Phishing is one of the oldest tricks in the hacker playbook - but its also one of the most effective. Alright, but cant I just spot and delete phishing emails?"

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

A new study from Abnormal found that 4.31% of phishing attacks mimicked Microsoft, far ahead of second most-spoofed brand PayPal.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

Xanthorox reasoner advanced mimics human reasoning, helping attackers craft more believable phishing messages or manipulate targets through social engineering. It features a live web scraper tool that pulls data from over 50 search engines for real-time reconnaissance.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2025

As artificial intelligence continues to transform how we do business, cybercriminals are finding equally innovative ways to weaponize it. The post AI-Powered Phishing Kits: The New Frontier in Social Engineering appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 31, 2021

SlashNext today unfurled a SlashNext Email Detection and Response platform for Microsoft 365 that leverages artificial intelligence in the form of machine learning and computer vision algorithms coupled with natural language processing (NLP) to identify spear phishing, social engineering and business email compromise (BEC) attacks.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

Financial fraud With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), financial fraud tactics are growing more sophisticated, and sadly, they often target older people. Social engineering attacks Social engineering attacks occur when someone uses a fake persona to gain your trust.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Hiring Data Recycling Security Engineers Smart? Will the quantum attacker be powered by deep learning artificial intelligence membranes that eat machine learning algorithms for breakfast? Organizations today still have a massive problem with phishing attacks, ransomware, account takeaways, and social engineering.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2023

Deepfake social engineering scams have become an increasingly scary trend among cybercriminals to socially engineer victims into submission. The threat actors are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) voice cloning tools to disperse misinformation for cybercriminal scams.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2023

The announcement comes at a time when rates of BEC and other advanced phishing attacks are climbing exponentially as they expose vulnerabilities in traditional email security solutions with social engineering tactics. According to the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), 74% of breaches involved a human element.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Phishing and Social Engineering : Phishing remains a popular attack method, leveraging emails, fake websites, and social media to deceive users into providing sensitive information. Cybercriminals are also increasingly using social media to gather intelligence, exploit personal information, and initiate attacks.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 9, 2024

In today's digital age, phishing has evolved into a sophisticated threat capable of deceiving even the most technically savvy individuals. No longer confined to suspicious emails, phishing now encompasses voice-based attacks (vishing), text-based scams (smishing) automated with phishing kits, and deepfake technologies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 20, 2021

Today, we are reviewing the GreatHorn Cloud Email Security Platform, an email security solution to protect organizations against phishing attacks and advanced communication threats. Phishing attacks have been growing dramatically in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting massive increase in employees working from home.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Microsoft and OpenAI warn that nation-state actors are using ChatGPT to automate some phases of their attack chains, including target reconnaissance and social engineering attacks. LLM-supported social engineering : Leveraging LLMs for assistance with translations and communication, likely to establish connections or manipulate targets.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2025

Feinberg warns that AI agents are vulnerable to the same manipulation tactics used against peoplelike social engineering and prompt injectionand should therefore be subject to least privilege access, activity monitoring, and identity governance policies.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Evolution of social engineering Social engineering exploits human psychology to manipulate individuals into revealing sensitive information or taking harmful actions. Traditional phishing attacks rely on deceptive emails, but deepfakes have taken impersonation to a new level by creating convincing audio and video forgeries.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 22, 2023

Today, businesses of all sizes must be vigilant in protecting their data and infrastructure from a wide variety of threats, including malware, phishing, and denial-of-service attacks. An increase in sophisticated phishing attacks. •A A shift from traditional malware to ransomware. •An

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

Phishing and social engineering awareness : Raising awareness about common attack vectors like phishing emails, malicious links, or social engineering attempts that can lead to unauthorized access to data or system compromise.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When it comes to impactful types of internet-borne crime, phishing is the name of the game. According to Verizon's 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), a whopping 74% of breaches involve a human element, which is exactly what phishing aims to exploit. And for good reason. Tactics matter a lot, too.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 17, 2024

Ezra Graziano, Director of Federal Accounts at Zimperium, emphasized the urgency for defense against such evolving social engineering tactics. As artificial intelligence capabilities advance, the threat of highly convincing impersonations increases.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

Spear phishing is a more targeted and effective phishing technique that attempts to exploit specific individuals or groups within an organization. While phishing uses a broader range of tactics, such as mass emailing to random recipients, spear phishing is often well-researched and tailored to high-value targets.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 23, 2025

As the report starkly states: "The three primary ways in which attackers access an organization are stolen credentials, phishing and exploitation of vulnerabilitiesacross every single industry." Phishing accounted for nearly 25% of all breaches. Threat actors aren't brute-forcing their way inthey're logging in through the front door.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 26, 2023

A new potential cybercrime tool called "FraudGPT" appears to be an AI bot exclusively being used for offensive purposes, such as crafting spear phishing emails, creating cracking tools, carding, and more nefarious activities. This craftiness would play a vital role in business email compromise (BEC) phishing campaigns on organizations.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly shifted from buzz to business necessity over the past yearsomething Zscaler has seen firsthand while pioneering AI-powered solutions and tracking enterprise AI/ML activity in the worlds largest security cloud.As

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

To stay ahead, organizations must turn to artificial intelligence. According to Charlie Madere of digital impersonation protection firm Memcyco, such attacks involve the use of phishing websites impersonating companies' websites. Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks Networks are a way for people to exchange information.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 1, 2025

The RSA Conference 2025, held in San Francisco from April 28 to May 1, spotlighted the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, with a strong emphasis on artificial intelligence, identity security, and collaborative defense strategies. AI phishing coach: This tool replaces traditional, static training with real-time, personalized coaching.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2023

During the reporting period, key findings include: DDoS and ransomware rank the highest among the prime threats, with social engineering, data related threats, information manipulation, supply chain, and malware following.

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