#Social Engineering

GitHub's Fake Star Economy: How Reputation-as-a-Service Is Poisoning Open Source

Six million fake stars. A 100x surge in bot campaigns. LLM-generated issue comments. Inside the Reputation-as-a-Service economy that is eroding trust in open source, and why the 50,000-star repo you found might really have 500 real users.

OpenAI Tackles AI Agent 'Prompt Injection'

OpenAI is adapting its AI security strategy to counter sophisticated prompt injection attacks, treating them as social engineering challenges.

Humanix Raises $18M to Boost AI Social Engineering Defense

Humanix Security Inc. raised $18 million to expand its AI platform, which detects and blocks social engineering attacks by protecting the human layer of organizations.

Adaptive Security Secures OpenAI Funding, Totaling $55M

The AI Paradox: Malware's New Frontier