$ grep -l "tag:social-engineering" writing/
tag: social engineering.
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2026·07·17
The TfL hackers were teenagers. Unusually, they were caught. Two young Britons — Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18 — jailed five and a half years each for the 2024 Transport for London attack: £29m of damage, 148 systems down, done with social engineering. The UK's largest cybercrime case — and, unusually, they were caught. threat intel · law enforcement · social engineering
8 min
2026·07·16
The Qantas breach was a phone call: what we know A living account of the Qantas breach, now pinned on a tech-support scam. No zero-day — a phone call to a contact centre exposed 5.7 million customers. What's confirmed, what's still unproven, and the help-desk controls that actually stop it. Updated as it develops. data breach · social engineering · incident response
10 min
2022·04·26
What the teenagers taught the Fortune 500 LAPSUS$ compromised Microsoft, Okta, Nvidia, Samsung, Vodafone, and several others in a few months. They were teenagers using social engineering and MFA fatigue. The lesson, awkwardly, is that the dominant compromise vector in 2022 is social, not technical. incident · social engineering · mfa · governance
8 min
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