Social engineering attacks, which target individuals rather than digital systems to gain the information needed for unauthorized access to networks, are on the rise. Recent reports show that phishing, which is among the more common social engineering attacks, increased by an astonishing 61 percent from 2021 to 2022.
“Cyber criminals are turning more and more to social engineering attacks because they’ve learned humans are usually the weakest link in the cybersecurity framework,” says Yashin Manraj, CEO of Pvotal Technologies. “I refer to it as the human vulnerability factor. It is a problem that leads directly to compromised or weak access credentials, which play a role in 80 percent of data breaches.”
