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A Single Phishing Email Cost One Company $60 Million In early 2025, Orion SA, a Luxembourg-based metals company, disclosed that a business email compromise (BEC) phishing attack had tricked employees into wiring approximately $60 million to attacker-controlled accounts. That's not a typo. One phishing campaign. Sixty million dollars.
The Phishing Email That Cost One Company $60 Million In January 2024, a finance employee at the engineering firm Arup wired $25 million after attending a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and other colleagues. Every person on that call was a deepfake. That
When "Removed" Shows Up and You Start Googling You found an app, a service, or a browser extension labeled "Removed" — or maybe something you installed just vanished and now shows as "removed" in your app list. So you searched "removed is it legit.
In 2023, a finance employee at a Hong Kong multinational wired $25 million to threat actors after a spear phishing email led to a deepfake video call impersonating the company's CFO. That's not a plot from a thriller — it's a real incident reported by
A Single Fake Identity Website Cost One Company $47 Million In early 2024, a finance employee at engineering firm Arup wired $25 million after joining a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and other colleagues. Every person on that call was a deepfake. The
In January 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — much of it powered by spoofed sender addresses — cost American organizations over $2.9 billion in 2023 alone. Behind a huge share of those losses sits a deceptively simple tool: the fake mailer. These
The FBI Gmail Alert That Should Have Changed How You Think About Email In late 2024, the FBI issued a stark warning: AI-driven phishing attacks targeting Gmail users had become so sophisticated that even technically savvy professionals were falling for them. The advisory wasn't hypothetical. It was based
The Virus That Cost a Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2017, the NotPetya wiper malware tore through networks worldwide in under 24 hours. Heritage Valley Health System lost access to its entire network — radiology, cardiology, even surgical systems went dark. Across the globe, Maersk lost nearly $300 million. Merck reported
The Breach That Changed How I Think About Cybersecurity In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the United States — was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacy operations, delayed patient care, and exposed the protected health information of roughly 100 million individuals. UnitedHealth
The Breach That Changed How I Think About Cyber Security In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the United States — was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacies, hospitals, and insurance claims across the country for weeks. UnitedHealth Group, its parent company, later
