AMLBot says social engineering drove 65% of crypto cases it probed in 2025

About two-thirds of crypto incidents investigated by blockchain analytics company AMLBot in 2025 were driven by social ...
Homeland Security Today

North Korea Using Social Engineering to Enable Hacking of Think Tanks, Academia, and Media

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Department of State, and the National Security Agency (NSA), together with the Republic of Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), National ...
CoinTelegraph

CoinStats hack caused by ‘socially engineered’ employee, CEO suspects

The recent hack of 1,590 CoinStats crypto wallets was carried out by compromising a CoinStats employee. On June 22, the cryptocurrency portfolio manager CoinStats temporarily suspended its services ...

New scam spotted that uses a calendar invite, deepfakes of CEOs, and a troubleshooting program to create backdoors and data miners

This is one of many scams made in tandem with AI tools right now.
techtimes

BattleRoyal Hack: Threat Actors Use 'Special' Type of Social Engineering to Deliver DarkGate RAT Malware

In a sweeping wave of cyber onslaughts this fall, a threat actor, dubbed "BattleRoyal," executed a myriad of sophisticated social engineering campaigns against organizations in the United States and ...