Computer Security News and Insights
The Ransom Note Has Changed — And So Should Your Defenses In January 2026, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warned that ransomware complaints surged again year over year, with losses from reported incidents climbing into the billions. If you think ransomware peaked a few years ago, I
A Legitimate Invoice From PayPal — That's Also a Scam In late 2024, security researchers at Avanan documented a campaign where threat actors sent real PayPal invoices to victims — not spoofed emails, not lookalike domains, but actual invoices generated through PayPal's own platform. The emails passed every
A Single Input Field Took Down British Airways In 2018, British Airways disclosed a breach that compromised the personal and financial data of approximately 380,000 customers. The attack vector? A modified script injected into their website's payment page. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office
In 2023, a single employee's personal phone led to one of the most damaging casino breaches in history. Threat actors used social engineering to compromise MGM Resorts, and the attack vector started with a device the company didn't fully control. The resulting disruption cost MGM over
A Single Email Cost This Company $100 Million In 2015, Ubiquiti Networks disclosed that threat actors used carefully crafted emails impersonating company executives to trick finance employees into wiring $46.7 million to overseas accounts. The attackers didn't exploit a software vulnerability. They exploited people — with spear phishing.
The Email That Cost One Company $100 Million In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a form of spear phishing — accounted for over $2.9 billion in adjusted losses. That wasn't a typo. Billions. And those are just the cases
In late 2024, the FBI issued a stark warning: AI-driven phishing attacks targeting Gmail users had reached a level of sophistication that made them nearly indistinguishable from legitimate communications. We're not talking about the laughably bad "Nigerian prince" emails anymore. These are pixel-perfect replicas of Google
The Breach That Bankrupted a 40-Person Company In 2023, a small accounting firm in Sacramento lost every client record it had. An employee clicked a link in what looked like a DocuSign notification. Within 72 hours, the ransomware encrypted everything — backups included. The firm closed its doors three months later.
In 2024, the average cost of a data breach hit $4.88 million — the highest figure IBM had ever recorded. That number didn't climb because organizations lacked firewalls. It climbed because most people fundamentally misunderstand what cybersecurity actually is. If you've searched for a cybersecurity definition,
In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported losses exceeding $16 billion from cybercrime — and compromised credentials were the gateway for a staggering number of those incidents. Right now, billions of username-and-password combinations sit on dark web marketplaces, priced anywhere from $1 to $500 depending on what
