In March 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that phishing schemes were the most common cybercrime in 2021, with over 323,000 victims — more than double the count from 2019. That number is climbing again in 2022. If you're searching for how to spot
A Single Email Cost Ubiquiti $46.7 Million In 2015, networking giant Ubiquiti Networks disclosed that employees had been tricked into wiring $46.7 million to overseas accounts controlled by attackers. The weapon wasn't malware or a zero-day exploit. It was email. If you've ever asked
The $2.4 Billion Problem Sitting in Your Inbox In 2021, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a category driven almost entirely by fake emails — accounted for nearly $2.4 billion in adjusted losses. That made it the single costliest cybercrime type reported.
The FakeEmail Problem Is Bigger Than You Think In March 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — the category that covers most fakeemail schemes — accounted for $2.4 billion in adjusted losses in 2021 alone. That made it the single most financially damaging
When Trusted Software Becomes Your Biggest Threat In March 2022, researchers confirmed that threat actors had compromised the update mechanism for Asus software, ultimately pushing malware to nearly a million machines. The attackers hadn't built anything from scratch. They had removed legitimate code from a trusted update pipeline
91% of Cyberattacks Start With a Single Spam Email That number comes from research that's been validated year after year. Verizon's 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 82% of breaches involved a human element — and the overwhelming majority of those started in someone's
In March 2022, the FBI warned that threat actors were spoofing caller IDs of financial institutions and government agencies to steal millions from unsuspecting victims. The Bureau's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 18,000 complaints related to spoofing in 2021 alone, with adjusted losses exceeding $82
In March 2022, a single employee at Okta clicked a link in what appeared to be a routine IT notification. That one click gave the Lapsus$ threat actor group access to internal systems, ultimately affecting roughly 2.5% of Okta's customer base — hundreds of organizations. The attack didn&
In March 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Business Email Compromise — a scheme built almost entirely on spoofing — cost victims over $2.4 billion in 2021 alone. That made it the single most financially devastating category of cybercrime they tracked. Not ransomware. Not cryptojacking. Spoofing-based
A Single Phishing Email Led to a $100 Million Heist Between 2013 and 2015, a Lithuanian man orchestrated one of the most audacious cases of group online svindel ever documented. Evaldas Rimasauskas and his associates impersonated a legitimate Asian hardware manufacturer and tricked both Google and Facebook into wiring over
