Phishing attacks on companies have become increasingly sophisticated in recent years. The high success rates of, for example, tactics such as CEO Fraud/Fake President have meant that fraudsters and hackers are willing to spend more and more time and resources to manipulate their targets. This is reflected in the increased incidence of targeted spear phishing attacks and voice phishing operations, among other things. At the same time, technological developments in artificial intelligence provide a dangerous basis for novel applications in this area.

In this talk, we will give an overview of new attack tactics in the field of phishing and social engineering and examine which psychological factors play a particularly important role in times of remote w ...