Vishing Financial Institutions
January 25, 2023
Social-Engineer, LLC (SECOM) actively works with financial institutions to test and give guidance on their employees’ resilience…
Your Security Awareness May Be Failing to Be Effective – Here’s Why
January 11, 2023
Every year, billions are being spent globally on security awareness training. Yet, close to 60% of all the breaches we see are…
The Social Engineering Code of Ethics
December 14, 2022
Imagine you receive an email from your boss saying that there’s a new promotion at work. All you must do is log into the secure portal…
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,…