Customer service centers, commonly known as call centers and IT support teams, often referred to as help desks, are becoming an increasingly popular target for threat actors to infiltrate organizations …
LinkedIn has become an essential tool for professionals to network, share knowledge, and seek career opportunities. Yet, like any popular platform, it has become a fertile ground for threat actors …
Impersonation on LinkedIn: Recognizing the Top 10 Telltale Signs of Threat Actors Read More
NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, and HASP frameworks In today’s digital world, the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats poses significant challenges for organizations. Two major concerns are social engineering and credential …
Protecting Against Social Engineering and Credential Stuffing Read More
Social engineering attacks are one of the most commonly used methods for cyber criminals to gain access to sensitive data and information. Recent advances in generative AI have enabled threat …
How Threat Actors Exploit Generative AI For Social Engineering and Credential Compromise Read More
Download PDF Incident Name: Henry Ford Health Data Breach Date of Public Report: July 18th, 2023 Date of Incident: March 3rd, 2023 Summary: Henry Ford Health is a Detroit based …
Cybercriminals are always looking for ways to exploit the exposed personal data of high-value targets to breach companies. High-value targets (HVTs) are those individuals within an organization who have access …
How to Proactively Protect Your Organization’s High-Value Targets Read More
The spotlight in the fight against cybercrime continues to be an often overlooked yet pivotal factor – the human element. A profound understanding of this dimension is vital for safeguarding …
We all know that the cybersecurity vendor landscape is extensive and looks complex. Although there is a gap in cybersecurity talent worldwide, there’s certainly no lack of products in the …
As specialists in human attack surface protection, we at Picnic know all too well the importance of preventing the exploitation of exposed personally identifiable information (PII) by cyber criminals. While …
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Social engineers collect intelligence on human targets to develop paths for attack and compromise. Picnic’s platform emulates this external, human attack surface reconnaissance to expose Target Intelligence about an organization. …
The exploitation of human attack surface data and a crucial intelligence gap According to Verizon’s 2022 DBIR report, stolen passwords and phishing were the top two techniques used by threat …
Download PDF Incident Name: Kodi February 2023 Data Breach Date of Public Report: April 8th, 2023 Date of Incident: February 16th and 21st, 2023 Summary: Kodi is an open-source media …
Social engineers collect intelligence on human targets to develop paths for attack and compromise. Picnic’s platform emulates this external, human attack surface reconnaissance to expose Target Intelligence about an organization. …
Download PDF Incident Name: Activision December 2022 Social Engineering Attack and Data Breach Date of Public Report: February 27th, 2023 Date of Incident: December 4th, 2022 Summary: Activision is a …
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Download PDF Incident Name: Coinbase Social Engineering Attack Date of Incident: February 5th, 2023 Summary: Coinbase is an American cryptocurrency exchange platform. On February 5th, 2023, the company came under …
Download PDF Incident Name: Reddit Feb 2023 Social Engineering Attack and Data Breach Date of Incident: February 5th, 2023 Summary: Reddit, a popular news and social media platform, announced recently …
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Social engineers collect intelligence on human targets to develop identity paths for attack and compromise. Picnic emulates this external, human attack surface reconnaissance to provide customers with Target Intelligence about …
Every day, people follow a set of digital routines. Some people read the news online while drinking their morning coffee. Others check their work email from their smartphone. Still others …
Your digital footprint: It’s bigger than you realize Read More
Exploitation through easily accessible sensitive personal information is the single largest threat to companies and their people today. It’s how nearly all cyber-attacks begin and is at the root of …
DOWNLOAD E-BOOK Exploitation through publicly available information is the single largest threat to companies and their people today. Known as Open-Source Intelligence, or OSINT, this public data reveals to hackers …
Essential guide to open-source intelligence (OSINT) Read More
Security Guy TV on how Picnic helps organizations see and remediate human risk beyond the corporate firewall Picnic CEO Matt Polak joined security expert Chuck Harold of Security Guy TV …
Hackers today use our exposed personal data against us. More than 90% of the time, cyberattacks are specifically crafted from users’ public data. To a hacker and to cyber specialists …
Just a little bit of exposed personal data can go a long way for a hacker Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 3, 2022 – Picnic, the creators of the industry’s first automated enterprise-wide social engineering prevention and detection platform, announced today that industrial cybersecurity pioneer Robert M. Lee has joined …
Picnic welcomes industrial cybersecurity pioneer Robert M. Lee to its Board of Advisors Read More
Meeting all five Trust Service Principles (TSPs) along with HIPAA Security Rule Requirements, Picnic is set to deliver customer confidence in its first-of-its-kind enterprise-wide social engineering protection platform. WASHINGTON, D.C. …
