social engineering

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Hackers more often break into companies using previously discovered bugs, or by stealing login credentials or using social engineering techniques.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

So far, the most common use of AI for hacking has been social engineering.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

The ramifications of the lost data could leave Americans susceptible to blackmail, coercion, social engineering or impersonation because the Social Security Administration has so much private and personal data, Borges said.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 4, 2026

They used social engineering tricks to get access to the powerful internal control panel at the site.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025

Both claim to be egalitarian forms of social engineering and are civilizing, millennial, universal, missionary pseudo-religions.

From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Vaknin, Samuel