Documented social engineering incidents targeting the cybersecurity industry sector, sourced and fact-checked.
Vidoc Security Lab, a Polish-founded, US-headquartered cybersecurity startup.
ConfirmedKnowBe4 unknowingly hired a North Korean operative for a software engineering role after he passed four video interviews using an AI-enhanced stock photo.
ConfirmedImperva researcher Yohann Sillam showed that whitespace-padded prompt-injection payloads hidden in WhatsApp contact names, vCard FN fields.
ConfirmedGoogle's Threat Intelligence Group disclosed PROMPTFLUX, a VBScript dropper that calls the Gemini API mid-execution to have an LLM rewrite.
ConfirmedA Telegram/dark-web "blackhat ChatGPT" sold $200/month subscriptions promising AI-generated phishing pages, malware and BEC lures.
Social Engineering Examples