A Single Click Cost Change Healthcare $22 Million in Ransom In February 2024, the BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware group crippled Change Healthcare — a company processing roughly one-third of all U.S. health claims. UnitedHealth Group confirmed paying a $22 million ransom. Patient data for over 100 million individuals was compromised. The
In April 2024, researchers at Akamai discovered a massive DNS hijacking campaign targeting financial institutions across Southeast Asia. Attackers poisoned DNS caches at the ISP level, silently redirecting thousands of banking customers to pixel-perfect phishing sites. Victims entered their credentials on pages that looked identical to their bank's
The Breach That Exposed a Missing Playbook In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a social engineering attack gave threat actors access to critical systems. The attackers called the help desk, impersonated an employee, and got in. What made the damage so severe wasn't just
One Employee Stole Data. The Other Just Clicked a Link. Both Cost Millions. In 2022, a former Amazon employee was convicted for her role in the Capital One breach that exposed over 100 million customer records. That same year, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 82% of breaches
The Framework Everyone References but Few Actually Implement In 2023, the MOVEit Transfer breach ripped through over 2,600 organizations worldwide. Many of those companies had compliance checklists. Many referenced NIST standards in their security policies. And yet, basic access controls and patch management — core tenets of NIST guidance — were
In March 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm wired $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call that impersonated the company's CFO. The attack started with a single phishing email. That one message opened the door to a loss most companies would never recover
The $350 Million Typo in Verizon's Yahoo Deal When Verizon acquired Yahoo in 2017, the discovery of two massive data breaches — affecting all 3 billion Yahoo accounts — knocked $350 million off the purchase price. That's not a rounding error. That's what happens when cybersecurity
In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 phishing complaints — making it the most reported cybercrime category for the fifth consecutive year. That number almost certainly undercounts reality. Most phishing attacks never get reported. If you've landed here searching for a phishing
A Single Home Router Opened the Door to a $4.88M Breach In 2024, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average breach cost at $4.88 million — the highest ever recorded. A significant chunk of those breaches involved remote workers. That number isn'
In January 2024, CISA disclosed that a threat actor had exploited vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure products to breach the agency's own systems. Let that sink in. The federal agency responsible for defending U.S. critical infrastructure got hit. If CISA itself isn't immune, your organization
