The cyberattack exploits the multi-device login feature of WhatsApp, gaining access to the victim's account without leaving any trace or hint.

Experts warn that without stronger verification processes, deepfakes could quietly undermine trust, enable fraud, and expose ...

Social engineering defense startup Adaptive Security Inc. today revealed that it has raised $81 million in new funding to ...

According to God of Prompt on Twitter, MIT researchers have demonstrated that prompt engineering is fundamentally a social skill rather than a technical one, disrupting conventional approaches to ...

When top-level enterprise executives think of cybersecurity threats, they tend to picture things like malware, ransomware, and brute force attacks. But some of the biggest breaches start with ...

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 ...

Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Defender Experts have observed the ClickFix social engineering technique growing in popularity, with campaigns targeting thousands of ...

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 ...

Social Engineering Attacks Surge in 2025, Becoming Top Cybersecurity Threat Your email has been sent A new report from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 highlights how attackers are shifting away from ...

ClickFix, a deceptive social engineering tactic, is used by threat actors to manipulate unsuspecting users into unwittingly allowing a web page to silently populate the clipboard. Ultimately, the ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed that it has observed the notorious cybercrime group Scattered Spider broadening its targeting footprint to strike the airline sector. To ...