Crypto User Loses $282M In Bitcoin & Litecoin To Social Engineering Hack. IntroductionIn one of the most significant social engineering breaches in crypto history, a hacker made off with over $282 ...

As we move into 2026, social engineering is shifting from a tactical security concern to a leadership and governance ...

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 ...

The recent hack of 1,590 CoinStats crypto wallets was carried out by compromising a CoinStats employee. On June 22, the cryptocurrency portfolio manager CoinStats temporarily suspended its services ...

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 ...

Here at Hackaday we cover news and interesting features for the hacker community, with an emphasis more on the hardware side. Nevertheless we also cover stories from time to time from the broader ...

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 ...

For over 15 years I have been focused on this field called social engineering, and after all this time, we are at a point in human history where we will start to discuss these tactics from a ...

Famed hacker and social engineer Kevin Mitnick, who was at one time one of the most wanted cyber criminals in the world, has died peacefully at the age of 59 from complications arising from pancreatic ...