Social Engineering Cyberattack Vectors

AI generated social engineering attacks leverage email, social media, and web apps. Email remains the vehicle of choice for fraudsters, with 98% using email in some way! Social media and web apps are also leveraged, but to a lesser extent.

Be wary as AI is making social engineering attacks more realistic and difficult to detect across all these vectors!

Data from the Verizon DBIR report: https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/

I created several video shorts, discussing interesting aspects of this year’s DBIR, which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@CybersecurityInsights/shorts