A growing number of cybercriminals are using social engineering to manipulate users into giving them what they want. Social engineering taps into the human psyche by exploiting powerful emotions such as fear, urgency, curiosity, sympathy, or the strongest feels of them all: the desire for free t-shirts. Cybercriminals know that the easiest way to penetrate a system is to go after the user, not the computer, says Jean-Phillip Taggart, Senior Security Researcher at Malwarebytes. Cybercrooks use this dangerous weapon to get at the weakest link: us.”]