5 articles tagged with "social engineering".
The ShinyHunters cybercriminal group published stolen data from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania after ransom demands went unpaid, exposing over 2 million alumni, donor, and student records.
A social engineering attack targeting MoneyGram's IT helpdesk led to a week-long global outage affecting billions in remittances and exposed sensitive customer data including government IDs and bank account information.
The EVALUSION campaign uses social engineering, Google Calendar C2, and steganography to distribute Amatera information stealer—part of a technique now used in 47% of observed attacks.
Threat actors from the Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters groups breached Allianz Life's Salesforce CRM through social engineering, exposing personal data including Social Security numbers of 1.5 million customers and financial professionals.
Scattered Spider social-engineered a service desk password reset to breach M&S, deploying DragonForce ransomware that encrypted VMware infrastructure, halted online sales for 46 days, and caused £300 million in lost profit.