ZDNET's key takeaways Clickfix attacks surged 500% in early 2025.Cybercriminals now use AI in BEC scams.AI is making phishing ...

Senior executives and high-net-worth individuals are increasingly at risk as hackers use deepfakes, voice cloning and other ...

Cybercriminals have increasingly used cloud account takeover (ATO) tactics in recent years - as it allows them to hijack ...

“Although AI is often touted as a game‑changer for the social‑engineering landscape, in the context of phishing, most threat ...

Workday has confirmed that it fell victim to a wide-ranging social engineering campaign that allowed hackers to access information at one of its third-party vendors. The hackers work by impersonating ...

Elliptic says 2025 thefts have already smashed records. Funds believed to help bankroll Pyongyang’s nuclear programme.

On October 17, Senior ISC Handler Xavier Mertens said in a post published on the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center website that the wave of attacks on TikTok leverages ClickFix social engineering ...

Hannah Shaw, better known as the “Kitten Lady,” teaches people how to care for neonatal cats, and has raised more than $1 million for animal shelters and rescues. Her Facebook page has gained over a ...

The recent hack of 1,590 CoinStats crypto wallets was carried out by compromising a CoinStats employee. On June 22, the cryptocurrency portfolio manager CoinStats temporarily suspended its services ...

Keen to the importance of not simply clicking on any email I receive in my inbox, I recently received a message with a subject line I could not resist: “Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training.” For ...

Media, which first reported on the doxing of officials from the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI, and the Department of ...

SYDNEY — Properly trained staff, not technology, is the best protection against social engineering attacks on sensitive information, according to security consultant and celebrity hacker Kevin Mitnick ...