6 articles tagged with “social engineering”
Indonesia's e-wallet ecosystem moves over a billion transactions a month, and scammers have built a small industry around emptying those wallets. Most successful e-wallet fraud in 2026 doesn't break the apps. It breaks the user. Here is the playbook, the technical layer, and the fixes that actually matter.
Indonesia's IASC received 432,637 fraud reports tied to WhatsApp between November 2024 and January 2026, with combined losses of Rp 9.1 trillion. Most of those started with a single six-digit code. Here is exactly how the takeover works, why your friends keep falling for it, and what actually stops it.
Doctors, engineers, professors, and CEOs fall for scams every single day. Intelligence doesn't protect you — in fact, smart people sometimes make better targets because they're more confident in their ability to spot a con. Here's the neuroscience and psychology behind why scams work on everyone, and the mental defenses that actually help.
Every firewall, every encryption protocol, every security tool you use has one vulnerability they can't patch: you. Social engineering attacks don't hack computers — they hack people. And in 2026, they're more sophisticated than ever.
Forget the old Nigerian prince emails. Modern phishing uses AI-written messages, cloned login pages, and deepfake voice calls that fool even tech-savvy people. Here's how to spot them before it's too late.
Scammers can now clone someone's voice with just a few seconds of audio. Your mom, your boss, your friend — anyone. Here's how it works and how to not fall for it.