#social-engineering
4 cases
Clover Health (138,677) and AngMar Management Services (126,196) disclosed separate US healthcare breaches in September 2026 — one social engineering of three staff accounts, one Interlock ransomware attack — paired in coverage as '250,000 impacted'.
A stranger emailed an unpaid maintainer offering to take over a package he no longer used. Three months later it was stealing private keys from bitcoin wallets holding more than 100 BTC. Nobody was ever identified.
Apollo Global Management confirmed on August 21, 2026 that it had suffered a data breach stemming from a social engineering attack. Between July 6 and July 10, 2026, attackers used voice phishing,...
A sophisticated multi-year supply chain attack compromised the widely used xz compression library, embedding a backdoor in liblzma that targeted OpenSSH authentication on systemd-based Linux distributions. The attacker, operating under the persona 'Jia Tan,' spent over two years building trust as a contributor before gaining maintainership and inserting the malicious code.