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Social Engineering
Psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information.
13 case studies
Social Engineering
2024medium
LastPass Employee Deepfake Audio Attack: The CEO's Voice Is Being Cloned
2 min readSocial Engineering
2023critical
MGM Resorts Social Engineering Attack
2 min readSocial Engineering
2023critical
Caesars Entertainment: Pay $15M or We Publish Your Loyalty Members' Data
2 min readSocial Engineering
2023critical
Scattered Spider vs MGM Resorts: No-Code Social Engineering Takes Down Vegas
2 min readSocial Engineering
2022critical
Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge: A Fake Job Offer Steals $625 Million in Crypto
2 min readSocial Engineering
2022critical
Lapsus$: Teenagers Bribe Telecom Employees to Breach Microsoft, Nvidia, and Uber
2 min readSocial Engineering
2022critical
Romance Scam Pig Butchering: $3.5 Billion in Crypto Stolen Through Manufactured Love
2 min readSocial Engineering
2021medium
GriftHorse: 10 Million Android Users Billed Via Premium SMS Subscription Scam
2 min readSocial Engineering
2020high
The Twitter Bitcoin Hack
2 min readSocial Engineering
2020medium
Barbara Corcoran's $400,000 BEC: Fake Invoice Fools Real Estate Mogul's Bookkeeper
2 min readSocial Engineering
2013high
Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks AP Twitter, Markets Crash
2 min readSocial Engineering
2006medium
Frank Abagnale and the Modern HP Pretexting Scandal
2 min readSocial Engineering
1995high
Kevin Mitnick: The Art of Social Engineering at Motorola, Nokia, and Fujitsu
2 min readSocial Engineering
Defend against social engineering
Practical guides drawn directly from these incidents.