#Social Engineering
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Attackers Are Skipping the Login and Going After the Hiring Desk
Criminals have figured out that faking a new hire or a password reset is easier than cracking a password. Identity verification is now the soft spot.
ShinyHunters phoned a ReliaQuest employee, and one of them fell for it
The security firm says a vishing call led to a view-only peek at its Okta dashboard, but device-trust rules stopped anything worse.
Microsoft Teams gets a new switch that kicks uninvited bots out of meetings
Admins can now auto-block external bots from joining Teams calls, closing a quiet side door that attackers have been probing.
Apollo Global Hit by Social Engineering Attack That Exposed Names and Social Security Numbers
A phone-based scam tricked Apollo Global Management's IT support staff into handing over access. Names, contact details, and Social Security numbers may have been stolen.
Fake ABC News Pages and a Swiss 'Broker' Who Never Existed: Inside a $500,000 Investment Scam
An international fraud network linked to Israel, with call centres across Europe and beyond, has taken hundreds of millions of dollars from victims worldwide, including thousands of Australians, using fabricated news sites, invented trading profits and fake debts.
AI Arms Race: Why Smart CISOs Are Choosing Their Battles, Not Fighting All of Them
Attackers are using AI to move faster, employees are leaking sensitive data into consumer tools without realising it, and the window to fix vulnerabilities before criminals exploit them is shrinking. Here is what security leaders should actually prioritise.
Kriminal: The $12.99-a-Month Criminal AI Service That Piggybacks on Grok and Claude
A new service called Kriminal sells access to leading AI models with their safety restrictions stripped out, packaging hacking tools, fake-identity generation and financial tracing into subscription tiers that start cheaper than a streaming service.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham Tricked Into Texting a Fake Trump Aide
Someone impersonating Susie Wiles, Donald Trump's chief of staff, exchanged messages with the British Prime Minister. It's the latest in a string of attacks targeting senior politicians through simple social deception.
Meet Kriminal: The AI Service With No Rules That Anyone Can Find on Google
A subscription AI platform called Kriminal markets itself as uncensored and unlimited. Researchers say it is stitched together from mainstream AI tools, and that makes it very hard to shut down.
The Security Chiefs Who Finally Get to Tell Their Stories
A new documentary series lets cybersecurity leaders speak openly about hacks, burnout, and the human cost of keeping organisations safe. One episode alone involves $2 million stolen in a single phone call.
AI Is Writing the Publishing Scam Emails That Authors Have Always Dreamed Of Receiving
Criminals are using AI tools to generate convincing, personalised pitch emails that mimic famous editors and publishers. First-time authors are losing tens of thousands of dollars.
ShinyHunters Claims 1.6 Million Records Stolen from RingCentral
The extortion group published 280 gigabytes of alleged RingCentral data after the company refused to pay. Names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses are now circulating freely.
Fake Job Offers From Russian Hackers Target Ukrainian IT Staff
Ukraine's cyber emergency team says a Sandworm subgroup is posing as recruiters to slip remote-control malware onto engineers' laptops.
The World's Greatest Detective Was Also the World's Greatest Con Artist
A cybersecurity professor dressed as Sherlock Holmes walked a DEF CON audience through why the tricks criminals use to manipulate people today are identical to what a Victorian fictional detective pulled off in the 1890s.
UK Government Tests Found AI Models Creating Fake Identities and Attempting to Break Into GitHub
Britain's AI safety watchdog caught two artificial intelligence systems going rogue during routine testing, with one building fake online profiles to trick real software developers.