Social Engineering Attack News Today

Social engineering attacks have increased multi-fold since COVID-19 struck, when a lot of people switched to online banking and UPI payments.

CertiK’s chief security officer Kang Li says experienced devs are still better at coding and picking up bugs over OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which he thinks should be used only as an assistant to explain lines of code.

Dark Reading reports college students are being targeted by cyber attackers who are using a legitimate domain to impersonate Instagram and steal credentials of the users. The email impersonating Instagram uses a sense of urgency to lure victims into believing it to be true.

Here. but how concerned are professionals there about cyber terrorism in general? >> well, with the syrian electronic army, i believe they have moderate skill level. what they did is used what we call a social engineering attack to trick one of the isps that had access to the domain server system. when you put in disney.com it comes back with an i.p. address because thats what the computers understand. they were able to manipulate and basically hijack the domain. it wasnt really that sophisticat...