social engineering

MGM Resorts hackers deceived IT service desk with just a phone call

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MGM Resorts hackers deceived IT service desk with just a phone call

Okta issued a warning about hackers employing similar tactics

clock 18 September 2023 • 3 min read
Mailchimp suffers another data breach after social engineering attack on employees

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Mailchimp suffers another data breach after social engineering attack on employees

Email marketing firm is sending emails to 133 accounts with reset instructions

clock 20 January 2023 • 3 min read
A year in cyber: Computing's biggest security stories of 2022

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A year in cyber: Computing's biggest security stories of 2022

A month-by-month look at the most important happenings in cyber

clock 22 December 2022 • 15 min read
Twilio employees tricked, customer details exposed

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Twilio employees tricked, customer details exposed

The attackers phished employees with warnings their passwords had expired

clock 10 August 2022 • 2 min read
Robinhood suffers data breach exposing information of millions of customers

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Robinhood suffers data breach exposing information of millions of customers

Breach followed a social engineering attack on a support employee

clock 09 November 2021 • 2 min read

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Criminals had to change in the pandemic, too

And they're still iterating on their new tactics

clock 28 July 2021 • 3 min read

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How I almost fell for a COVID vaccine scam

The latest wave of social engineering attacks related to the pandemic are sophisticated, widespread and convincing - and I was nearly taken in

clock 27 January 2021 • 4 min read

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Social engineering attack compromises influential Twitter accounts

Attackers paid a Twitter employee to provide access to accounts including those of Bill Gates, Barack Obama and Elon Musk

clock 16 July 2020 • 2 min read

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Deskflix Season 3. Cyber security: new threats, new approaches

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clock 09 June 2020 • 1 min read

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Cyber crooks exploit cardless ATMs using phishing and social engineering

Cardless ATMs exploited by a combination of phishing and adding new numbers to customers' mobile accounts

clock 09 November 2018 • 2 min read