Social engineering is the very common practice of exploiting a human element to initiate and/or execute a cyberattack. Human weakness and ignorance present such easy targets that fully 82% of the ...

Cybercriminals continue to launch creative social engineering attacks to trick users. Meanwhile, social engineering misconceptions are exacerbating the risks of falling victim. Social engineering is ...

Malware is just one way hackers and scammers can get you. Another common tactic is social engineering—a collection of methods that exploit vulnerabilities in human behavior to steal sensitive info, ...

Social engineering is present in 90% of phishing attacks today. However, business email compromise (BEC) attacks stand apart in the cybercrime industry for their emphasis on social engineering and the ...