Learn how attackers use psychological manipulation to trick people into revealing sensitive information or performing unsafe actions. Topics include pretexting, baiting, tailgating, vishing, and real-world social engineering case studies that expose common human vulnerabilities.
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When "Removed" Shows Up and You Start Googling You found an app, a service, or a browser extension labeled "Removed" — or maybe something you installed just vanished and now shows as "removed" in your app list. So you searched "removed is it legit.
In 2023, a finance employee at a Hong Kong multinational wired $25 million to threat actors after a spear phishing email led to a deepfake video call impersonating the company's CFO. That's not a plot from a thriller — it's a real incident reported by
A Single Fake Identity Website Cost One Company $47 Million In early 2024, a finance employee at engineering firm Arup wired $25 million after joining a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and other colleagues. Every person on that call was a deepfake. The
In January 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — much of it powered by spoofed sender addresses — cost American organizations over $2.9 billion in 2023 alone. Behind a huge share of those losses sits a deceptively simple tool: the fake mailer. These
The FBI Gmail Alert That Should Have Changed How You Think About Email In late 2024, the FBI issued a stark warning: AI-driven phishing attacks targeting Gmail users had become so sophisticated that even technically savvy professionals were falling for them. The advisory wasn't hypothetical. It was based
A $3.1 Billion Problem Nobody Wants to Own In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported $12.5 billion in cybercrime losses — up from $10.3 billion the year before. Investment fraud alone accounted for $4.57 billion. These aren't abstract numbers. They
The Breach That Changed How I Think About Cyber Security In February 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that losses from cybercrime exceeded $16 billion in 2024 — a record that shattered the previous year's numbers. That single statistic rewired how I approach cyber security
In March 2025, a finance director at a mid-sized manufacturing company wired $2.3 million to a bank account in Southeast Asia. The request came from what looked like the CEO's email — same signature, same tone, same thread about an acquisition they'd been discussing for weeks.
In March 2025, a mid-size logistics company in the Midwest lost $2.3 million after a single employee clicked a fake DocuSign link. The attacker harvested credentials, pivoted into the company's financial systems, and initiated wire transfers over a long weekend. The employee had never received phishing awareness
The Email That Cost One Company $37 Million In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that phishing and its variants remained the number one reported cybercrime by volume, with over 298,000 complaints in a single year. But here's the part that should keep
