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The Email That Cost One Company $37 Million In 2024, a single phishing email led to a business email compromise attack against Orion SA, a Luxembourg-based metals trading company, resulting in a $60 million wire transfer to threat actor-controlled accounts. The company later recovered roughly $23 million. The email looked
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. Despite billions spent on cybersecurity tools, a single deceptive email still opens the door to catastrophic breaches. If you've ever
The Policy Everyone Signs and Nobody Reads In 2023, a single employee at a major casino operator plugged a personal USB device into a workstation. That device carried malware. Within hours, threat actors had lateral movement across the network. The resulting breach cost over $100 million in damages, downtime, and
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 298,000 complaints related to phishing and its variants — including vishing — resulting in losses exceeding $18.7 billion across all reported cybercrime categories. Voice phishing, or vishing, is one of the fastest-growing attack vectors because it bypasses
In 2023, 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. I've investigated dozens of breaches that started with a single deceptive email. So when someone asks me what is a
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 complaints about phishing scams — making it the most reported cybercrime category for the fifth consecutive year. The real number is almost certainly higher, because most incidents never get reported. I've spent years helping organizations
A Single Click Cost One Company $188 Million In 2020, Marriott disclosed its second major breach in two years — this time exposing 5.2 million guest records. The root cause? Compromised employee credentials at a franchise property. Two employees' login details were used to access data for weeks before
In 2023, a single compromised password at MGM Resorts helped threat actors trigger a social engineering attack that cost the company over $100 million. The attackers didn't exploit some exotic zero-day vulnerability. They exploited people — and weak credential hygiene handed them the keys. If you've ever
A Single Fraud Ring Stole $75 Million — And Nobody Noticed for Months In 2023, the FBI dismantled a business email compromise (BEC) ring that operated across multiple countries, defrauding companies of tens of millions of dollars. The operation wasn't run by a lone wolf. It was a coordinated
The Coffee Shop Breach That Cost $6.5 Million In 2024, a mid-size financial services firm discovered that a single remote employee working from a hotel lobby had their session token hijacked through a man-in-the-middle attack on the hotel's Wi-Fi. The threat actor used that access to move
