🎯 Social engineering

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• Passkeys Are Better Than Passwords. But They Are Not Enough.
  articleas techniques2026-10-30

  Listed as a threat to passwords and traditional MFA; the page says attackers increasingly use AI to make it more effective.

• Managed for Malice: How Attackers Turn MDM into Remote Access
  writeupas classification.key entities2026-10-28
• Keystone to destroy almost 19,000 wallets after device key leak
  articleas classification.key entities2026-10-26
• Dutch Police Arrest Two Over NFC Relay Attacks That Drained $400,000+ From Bank Accounts
  articleas techniques2026-10-26It is written here as Social engineering: claiming the victim's debit card was blocked and asking them to download an application.
• Mythos 5 Ignored Real-World Harm in July Attack
  articleas classification.key entities2026-10-26
• Anthropic tests AI autonomous replication across eight nodes in four of five trials
  articleas techniques2026-10-12It is written here as Social engineering (small models remained weak at it).

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• Security Awareness Training Isn’t Dead, but It Needs a Rethink
  articleas techniques2026-10-08

  Attackers exploit context, timing, and psychology to manipulate employees into insider-threat-like mistakes

• Teach Yourself to Phish | Huntress
  writeupas techniques2026-08-28

  Attacks exploiting psychological traits (desire to be helpful, trust of strangers, fear of getting in trouble) using fear, intimidation, urgency, empathy, compensation, or authority to provoke a 'fight or flight' adrenaline response and bypass logical scrutiny of an email.

• requie/AI-Red-Teaming-Guide
  repoas techniques2026-07-08

  Authority manipulation, urgency injection, emotional manipulation to manipulate AI through context

• Samsar4/Ethical-Hacking-Labs
  repoas techniques2026-05-08

  Module topic covering social engineering techniques