Posts Tagged ‘social engineering’
Top 5 Cybersecurity News
This week’s Top 5 Cybersecurity News for November 6, 2026 follows five routine acts that turned into the way in. A fake job interview got an engineer to run a code test on a Binance work laptop, and about $6.3 billion followed. Stored backup credentials gave a ransomware affiliate a school estate, in an attack…
Read MoreRevolut Data Breach: Trusted Channel Abuse
A recent Revolut data breach shows how attackers can exploit trust without breaking into a bank’s core infrastructure. By using a compromised Italian government email account to submit fraudulent customer-data requests, attackers reportedly persuaded Revolut staff to disclose sensitive information linked to roughly 680 customers across several European countries. The incident exposed a second problem:…
Read MoreTerminalFix ClickFix Attack Campaign Hits Germany
A TerminalFix ClickFix attack campaign has compromised a German state institution’s network, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) confirmed on September 4. TerminalFix is an evolution of the ClickFix social-engineering technique: a fake CAPTCHA tricks a user into pasting a command, but instead of the old single-machine Run-dialog trick, it opens Windows Terminal and…
Read MoreDevice Code Phishing: What SMEs Need to Know
Cybercriminals have started exploiting a login shortcut millions of people already trust. Rather than sending victims to a fake login page or trying to steal a password outright, they persuade employees to authorise an attacker-controlled device through a completely legitimate identity provider — Microsoft, most often. The result is a fast-growing form of social engineering…
Read MoreMicrosoft Teams Vishing Ransomware Hits in 17 Hours
A Microsoft Teams vishing ransomware campaign has hit dozens of North American organizations since February 2026, using two-minute fake IT-helpdesk phone calls to gain a foothold that, in the fastest confirmed case, ended in full Chaos ransomware encryption within 17 hours of first contact. What Happened Security vendor Sophos tracked the campaign to a financially…
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