Social engineering attacks are incredibly common. Can you avoid being a victim?

Dave Nyczepir is a senior editor at BizTech. “I think the chief reason that a lot of SMBs get attacked is that they're targets of opportunity,” says John Shier, field CISO for threat intelligence at ...

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 ...

Company Profile Humanix (see Figure 1) is a cybersecurity company focusing on human-centric threat detection and response, ...

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 ...

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 and phishing attacks represent a critical challenge in the current digital landscape, exploiting the human element to bypass technical safeguards. These attacks rely on ...

Social engineering is unique in that the victim is not consciously aware that their actions are wrong when being targetted Social engineering attack lifecycle The telephone is a popular channel for ...

A campaign of cyber attacks orchestrated via social engineering against users’ Salesforce instances is now being attributed to the ShinyHunters cyber crime gang with growing confidence, and the list ...

Social engineering is often described as a cybersecurity issue, but that framing increasingly misses the point. The most effective social engineering attacks today do not rely on technical exploits or ...

Modern cyber incidents are providing powerful, real-world examples of how a cyberattack can cause a domino effect across a company's entire supply chain. For example, what started as a detected ...