Business Email Compromise Fraud: Social Engineering News
November 16, 2022
Business Email Compromise (BEC), a type of phishing fraud, consistently tops the FBIs list of most financially damaging online crimes.…
Dispelling Body Language Myths
November 3, 2022
Written by Christopher Hadnagy and Dr. Abbie Maroño There is no denying the appeal of body-language focused blogs, particularly those…
The Point (and Click) of Phishing Exercises
November 2, 2022
When we speak with companies about performing phishing tests, one of the most common responses is “We know a lot of people will click,…
SMiShing in Social Engineering News
October 26, 2022
SMiShing uses SMS (Short Message Service) as the attack vector. The attacker’s objective is to trick the target into installing…
Defending Against Vishing: Is It Really Possible?
October 13, 2022
Vishing, a word that was entered into the Oxford Dictionary in 2015, defines what we call “voice phishing”. Using the telephone to…
The FBI Told Me: Analyzing the FBI’s Cyber Crime Report
October 12, 2022
When you are a vendor who provides a valuable service, you look for opportunities to help companies. Sometimes, a vendor’s claims can…
Vishing (Voice Phishing) in Social Engineering News
September 28, 2022
A new report by Mutare reveals costly and pervasive shortcomings in enterprise security protections against voice network attacks,…
SMiShing Managed Service
August 24, 2022
SMiShing can be defined as a form of phishing in which an attacker uses a text message to trick recipients into clicking a link, with…
Impersonation Scams: Social Engineering News
August 4, 2022
At Social-Engineer, we define impersonation as the “practice of pretexting as another person with the goal of obtaining information or…
Stronger Security Posture: Building Your Program
July 13, 2022
In the first part of this two-part blog series, we touched on understanding your security posture, training your employees, and…