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SecurityWeek: Picnic Corporation Rebrands to VanishID, Raises $10 Million

Written by Eduard Kovacs, managing editor at SecurityWeek. Picnic Corporation announced on Tuesday that it has rebranded to VanishID and it has raised $10 million in funding. VanishID has developed a solution designed to provide online protection to executives and employees. Similar... Read More

CyberBytes Podcast with Matt Polak

In this episode of CyberBytes: The Podcast, Joseph Cooper was joined by Matt Polak, Founder and CEO of VanishID. VanishID is revolutionizing how organizations defend against social engineering by proactively identifying and removing the publicly available personal information that threat... Read More

Matt Polak Interview on Hackernoon

/ In the News / By VanishID In this short interview by NewsByte.Tech published on HackerNoon, Matt answers the following questions: What is your company in 2–5 words? Why is now the time for your company to exist? What do you love about... Read More

How I Would Hack You

/ In the News / By VanishID Demo by Rachel Tobac at Elevate Festival In this video, Rachel Tobac, CEO of Social Proof Security and a member of Picnic’s Board of Advisors, demonstrates how threat actors use exposed personally identifiable information available on data brokers,... Read More

Okta October 2023 Breach

Download PDF Incident Name: Okta October 2023 Breach Date of Incident: 2nd – 18th October 2023 Summary: Okta, a well-known identity and authentication provider based in the US, suffered a data breach in October 2023. On October 20, 2023, Okta released details... Read More

23andMe October 2023 Credential Stuffing Attack

Download PDF Incident Name: 23andMe October 2023 Credential Stuffing Attack Date of Incident: October 2nd, 2023 Summary: 23andMe is a biotechnology company based in California. They provide genetic testing to customers, offering details on their ancestors and genetic health data. On October... Read More

Retool August 2023 Social Engineering Attack

Download PDF Incident Name: Retool August 2023 Social Engineering Attack Date of Incident: August 27th, 2023 Summary: Retool, a popular software company, announced on September 13, 2023, that it had fallen victim to a cyber attack in August 2023. According to their... Read More

MGM Resorts International September 2023 Ransomware Attack

Download PDF Incident Name: MGM Resorts International September 2023 Ransomware Attack Date of Incident: September 10th, 2023 Summary: On September 11th, 2023, MGM Resorts International announced that they are currently dealing with a cyber attack that is impacting their company’s systems and... Read More

Kroll August 2023 SIM Swap Attack

Download PDF Incident Name: Kroll August 2023 SIM Swap Attack Date of Incident: August 19th, 2023 Summary: Kroll is a global company providing organizations with risk and financial solutions. On August 19th, 2023, they discovered that a T-Mobile account belonging to a... Read More

Okta August 2023 Social Engineering Attack Advisory

Download PDF Incident Name: Okta August 2023 Social Engineering Attack Advisory Date of Incident: August 2023 Summary: Okta, a provider of identity and authentication services, recently issued a warning to its customers regarding an ongoing, sophisticated social engineering attack that has been... Read More

CoinsPaid July 2023 Social Engineering Attack

Download PDF Incident Name: CoinsPaid Social Engineering Attack Date of Report: August 7th, 2023 Date of Incident: July 22nd, 2023 Summary: CoinsPaid, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency payment providers, suffered a cyber attack on July 22, 2023, which resulted in the theft... Read More

Henry Ford Health Data Breach

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 not-for-profit healthcare provider. On July 18, 2023, the company informed customers that it... Read More

Audience 1st Podcast: CISO Approaches to Human Attack Surface Protection Amidst Budget Cuts

44 Minutes of Cybersecurity Insights Picnic CEO Matt Polak joined Jeff Farinich, CISO of New American Funding, on an Audience 1st podcast hosted by Dani Woolf. With the accelerating proliferation of cyber threats, a challenge at hand involves addressing the human attack surface –... Read More

Tidal Cyber Fireside Chat with Picnic CEO Matt Polak

We Got This Covered: Picnic Picnic CEO Matt Polak recently joined Tidal Cyber’s Chief Innovation Officer Frank Duff on the “We’ve Got This Covered” fireside chat series to discuss Picnic joining the Tidal Product Registry™, Picnic’s scope within the MITRE ATT&CK® framework,... Read More

The Threat Show! Ep. 29 with guest Matt Polak

The Threat of the Human Attack Surface Picnic CEO Matt Polak shares practical steps that businesses can take to protect themselves from ransomware, including simulating social engineering attacks, safeguarding the human attack surface, and more. The podcast also goes over 5 threats... Read More

Picnic Target Intelligence Report: Mailchimp

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. Picnic pairs this unique perspective of threat actors with automated... Read More

Kodi February 2023 Data Breach

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 player software provider created by the non-profit XBMC Foundation. On April 8th, 2023,... Read More

Picnic Target Intelligence Report: Uber

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. Picnic pairs this unique perspective of threat actors with automated... Read More

Activision Dec 2022 Social Engineering Attack and Data Breach

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 video game developer most famous for creating Call of Duty and World of... Read More

Coinbase Feb 2023 Social Engineering Attack

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 a social engineering attack in which several employees were targeted with SMS messages... Read More

Reddit Feb 2023 Social Engineering Attack and Data Breach

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 that on February 5, 2023, the company suffered a data breach. The breach... Read More

Riot Games Jan 2023 Social Engineering Attack

Download PDF Incident Name: Riot Games Jan 2023 Date of Incident: January 20th, 2023 Summary: Riot Games is an American video game developer and publisher, most famous for the games League of Legends and Valorant. The company reported on January 20th via their... Read More

Brilliance Security Podcast – S4E20

The Role of OSINT in social engineering and how to manage your human attack surface Picnic CEO Matt Polak recently joined award-winning journalist Steven Bowcut of the Brilliance Security Magazine Podcast to discuss the role of OSINT in social engineering and how to manage your human attack surface.... Read More

Picnic Target Intelligence Report: Twilio

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 their organization seen from the perspective of threat actors. Picnic’s... Read More

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