Social engineering attacks made up 36% of intrusions from May 2024 to May 2025, surpassing malware and exploits as the top ...

Many AI-powered social engineering attacks involve redirecting payments or changing vendor banking details. Finance departments process numerous payments daily and rely on established workflows.

Among the prominently featured AI-specific attack vectors that involve direct compromise of AI infrastructure are direct ...

Generative AI is helping cybercriminals craft highly convincing, contextually relevant phishing emails, spear-phishing messages, and complex social engineering scripts.’ ...

Booz Allen Hamilton's CTO, Bill Vass, made a deepfake video of himself to promote greater worker skepticism of video and ...

They don’t have AI use policies. They’re just on a mission to maximize their ransom,’ says Jason Magee, Cynet CEO. As AI transforms industries across the board, top channel executives expressed a mix ...

In a project led by HelpSeeker Technologies in collaboration with Corsac Technologies and Microsoft, researchers from the University of Toronto’s Centre for Social Services Engineering (CSSE) are ...

Social engineering at scale What once required skilled con artists days or weeks of interaction – establishing trust, crafting believable pretexts, and subtly nudging behaviour – can now be done by AI ...

Africa increasingly vulnerable to AI, social engineering-driven cyber crime By Christopher TredgerJohannesburg, 30 Jul 2025Jason Lane-Sellers, director, Fraud and Identity at LexisNexis Risk Solutions ...