Social Engineering
Social engineering attacks use human error, fake stories and pressure tactics to manipulate people into unintentionally providing access or information about themselves or an organisation.
25th September 2025
Manipulating people, rather than exploiting technical flaws, to gain the access or trust needed to compromise a system.
So what? The source shows it reaching critical open source infrastructure, where an overworked, unpaid maintainer can be a single point of trust.
Examples: A patient committer gaining a maintainer’s trust on the xz project; sockpuppet accounts used to persuade Linux distributions to package the compromised version.
So what? The source shows it reaching critical open source infrastructure, where an overworked, unpaid maintainer can be a single point of trust.
Examples: A patient committer gaining a maintainer’s trust on the xz project; sockpuppet accounts used to persuade Linux distributions to package the compromised version.
28th October 2026
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