Also worth checking out is social-engineer.org’s Social Engineering Toolkit, which is a free download. The toolkit helps automate penetration testing via social engineering, including spear ...

More than nine in 10 (92%) organizations experienced an average of six credential compromises caused by email-based social engineering attacks in 2023, according to a new report by Barracuda. Scamming ...

Said another way, these efforts are a form of “social engineering,” that is, the use of deception and other means to manipulate individuals to make suboptimal decisions. In military operations, this ...

Recent claims by on-chain investigator ZachXBT reveal that Coinbase users have lost over $65 million due to social engineering scams over just the two months spanning December 2024 to January 2025.

I wanted to know whether engineers could treat society and social phenomena as systems in the engineering sense. That way, students and researchers could mathematically model and even simulate ...