Computer Security News and Insights
A Developer Nearly Lost Everything to a Fake Google Support Call In early 2025, a widely reported attack targeted Gmail users with a phone call that appeared to come from Google's actual support number. The caller — using AI-generated voice — told the victim their account had been compromised. They
Last year, a finance director at a mid-size logistics company wired $1.2 million to a threat actor who sent a single phishing email impersonating the CEO. The email contained no malware, no suspicious attachments, and no misspelled words. It simply asked for an urgent wire transfer, referenced a real
A Single Phishing Email Cost This Company $100 Million In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that phishing — often misspelled as "phising" — remained the most reported cybercrime category, with hundreds of thousands of complaints filed in a single year. But the raw numbers don&
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a sophisticated form of fake mail — caused adjusted losses exceeding $2.9 billion. That single category of email fraud outpaced every other cybercrime type in financial damage. And those are just the cases that got
The FBI Warning on Vishing and Smishing You Can't Afford to Ignore In early 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) flagged a sharp escalation in vishing and smishing campaigns targeting businesses and individuals across the United States. The 2023 IC3 Annual Report documented over
The $4.88 Million Email That Looked Completely Normal In 2023, a finance employee at a midsize manufacturing firm received an email from what appeared to be the CEO. It referenced a real acquisition the company was working on. It used the CEO's actual email signature. The employee
Your Old AIM Email Address Is Still a Liability In December 2017, AOL officially shut down AIM — AOL Instant Messenger — ending a 20-year run that defined how an entire generation communicated online. But here's what most people don't realize: the credentials tied to AIM email accounts
Your Inbox Is a Buffet — and Attackers Are Feeding In March 2024, MGM Resorts was still tallying the damage from a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to their help desk. The cost? Over $100 million in losses. The attacker didn't exploit a zero-day
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 complaints about phishing — making it the most reported cybercrime for the fifth consecutive year. That number only accounts for what gets reported. The actual volume is staggering. So what is a phishing attack, and why does
A Single Fake Email Cost This Company $37 Million In 2024, Japanese pharmaceutical giant Nikkei disclosed that a single employee wired approximately $29 million to a fraudulent account after receiving what appeared to be a legitimate email from a senior executive. They aren't alone. The FBI's
