2026 Social Engineering Risk Report
A comprehensive guide to social engineering threats and readiness for security professionals in the financial sector. Stay a step ahead of advanced cyber threats.
Social Engineering Risk Report for Financial Services
2026
Data-driven analysis of the latest social engineering attack vectors, defense strategies, and organizational readiness benchmarks for the financial industry.
What's inside
About the report
The report collects what our team sees in engagements with banks, technology companies and public institutions across Central and Eastern Europe. It draws on phishing simulations, social engineering tests, incident response work and dark web monitoring. The picture these sources add up to is fairly consistent. The shortest way into an organisation today runs through an employee, not through a hole in a system.
There is no description of our services here. What you get are the techniques attackers actually use: email phishing, smishing, quishing, vishing with voice cloning, video deepfakes. Each area comes with a checklist a security team can fold into its own procedures without buying extra tooling.
Who it is for
We write for CISOs, SOC and IT teams, and the people running security awareness programmes. For boards, the report helps put a number on how exposed the organisation really is to social engineering. And if you are preparing for DORA or NIS2, resilience against employee manipulation has to be evidenced in the risk assessment anyway.
Methodology and scope
We use three sources: data from our own test campaigns, public threat intelligence reporting, and analysis of listings and leaks observed on the dark web. Client engagement data is anonymised and shown in aggregate. Nothing in the report points to an individual organisation.
You get the report as a PDF in Polish. The 2026 edition covers observations from the last twelve months.