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In March 2025, a mid-size accounting firm in Ohio wired $1.2 million to a threat actor who sent a single spoofed email — a fakeemail that perfectly mimicked the CEO's display name, writing style, and even included a forwarded thread from a real conversation. The email passed every
The Fake Invoice That Drained $1.4 Million In early 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — the category that includes PayPal phishing attacks — generated over $2.9 billion in adjusted losses in 2023 alone. That number hasn't slowed down. One
The Trojan Horse You Already Installed In March 2024, a lone developer named Andres Freund noticed something odd: SSH connections were taking 500 milliseconds too long. That curiosity uncovered the XZ Utils backdoor — a sophisticated supply chain attack where a threat actor had spent two years building trust as a
160 Billion Spam Emails a Day — and Your Inbox Isn't Immune In 2024, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed what security professionals have been saying for years: email remains the primary initial access vector for data breaches. Over 90% of cyberattacks start with some form of malicious
In March 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $12.5 billion to cybercrime in 2023 alone — and phone-based fraud, driven largely by spoofing caller techniques, remains one of the fastest-growing categories. I've watched organizations with solid email security get gutted
In March 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25.6 million to threat actors after joining a video call that appeared to feature the company's CFO. The deepfake was convincing, but the attack started with something far simpler — a phishing link embedded
In March 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that spoofing-related fraud accounted for billions in losses across American businesses and individuals. Every major data breach investigation I've worked on in the past five years started the same way — someone trusted something that wasn'
In January 2024, a finance employee at the multinational firm Arup wired $25 million to criminals after a deepfake video call featuring what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call was fake — AI-generated avatars operated by an organized fraud ring. That
A Legitimate DocuSign Email That Steals Your PayPal Credentials In November 2024, Avanan researchers documented a wave of attacks where threat actors sent phishing emails through DocuSign's actual platform — not spoofed emails, but real DocuSign notifications. The documents inside impersonated PayPal invoices requesting payment authorization for hundreds or
A Single Phishing Attack Cost MGM Resorts $100 Million In September 2023, a threat actor called Scattered Spider impersonated an MGM Resorts employee during a help desk call. That single social engineering interaction led to a ransomware deployment that shut down slot machines, hotel key cards, and reservation systems across
