AMLBot says social engineering drove 65% of crypto cases it probed in 2025

About two-thirds of crypto incidents investigated by blockchain analytics company AMLBot in 2025 were driven by social ...
Homeland Security Today

North Korea Using Social Engineering to Enable Hacking of Think Tanks, Academia, and Media

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Department of State, and the National Security Agency (NSA), together with the Republic of Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), National ...
Inc

5 AI-Fueled Social Engineering Risks to Watch

Social engineering is arguably one of the most potent and persistent forms of cybercrime. There’s a reason why social engineering is so popular with cybercriminals: Hacking people is a lot simpler ...
techtimes

BattleRoyal Hack: Threat Actors Use 'Special' Type of Social Engineering to Deliver DarkGate RAT Malware

In a sweeping wave of cyber onslaughts this fall, a threat actor, dubbed "BattleRoyal," executed a myriad of sophisticated social engineering campaigns against organizations in the United States and ...
Harvard Business School

Protecting Yourself Against Social Engineering

Social Engineering is a method that bad actors will use to trick people into giving them sensitive information or access. The types of information these criminals are seeking can vary. Criminals use ...