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
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 actors last year, accounting for around 70% of all analyzed breaches.... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 log into social media to see what’s going on with... 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 all manner of human and organizational compromise. In this article,... Read More
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 how they can compromise human targets via social engineering attacks and defeat... 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 yesterday to talk about the problem of social engineering and how Picnic works to remediate... Read More
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 in general, this exposed, publicly available information is known as... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 3, 2022 – VanishID, 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 their Board of Advisors. Lee is the founder and CEO... Read More
Meeting all five Trust Service Principles (TSPs) along with HIPAA Security Rule Requirements, VanishID is set to deliver customer confidence in its first-of-its-kind enterprise-wide social engineering protection platform. WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 24, 2022 – VanishID, the industry’s first social engineering... Read More
