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In January 2024, a finance worker at British engineering firm Arup was tricked into wiring $25 million to criminals after a video call — a call that started with a single fake email. The message looked like it came from the company's CFO. Everything about it — the sender name,
$4.88 Million Per Breach — and Phishing Opens the Door In January 2024, a finance worker at multinational firm Arup sent $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call that impersonated company executives. The attack started with a single phishing email. One message. Twenty-five million dollars gone. That
10,000 Fake Domains and Counting In early 2024, the FBI issued a stark FBI warning on smishing texts targeting Americans in every state. The attack campaign involved over 10,000 newly registered domains impersonating toll collection agencies, delivery services, and government agencies. Victims received text messages claiming they owed
What a Phish Setlist Is — And Why Your Security Team Needs One In March 2024, a mid-size accounting firm lost $2.1 million after an employee clicked a single phishing email disguised as a DocuSign request during tax season. The firm had no phishing simulation program. No playbook. No plan.
A Single Email Cost This Company $25 Million In early 2024, a finance worker at engineering firm Arup was tricked into transferring $25 million after a deepfake video call that started with one phishing email. That's not a hypothetical. That happened. And it began the same way nearly
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25 million to threat actors after a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO. It was a deepfake. The attack started with a single phishing email. If your phishing definition still
In March 2024, a finance employee at a Hong Kong-based multinational wired $25.6 million to threat actors after a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO. It was a deepfake. But the attack started the same way almost every phishing attack starts — with a
In August 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center warned that business email spoofing remained one of the top reported cybercrime vectors, with Business Email Compromise (BEC) losses exceeding $2.9 billion in 2023 alone. That number doesn't even capture the full picture — because spoofing extends
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong transferred $25.6 million to criminals after a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO. Every person on that call was a deepfake. That's where phishing lives now — far beyond
In January 2024, a finance employee at British engineering firm Arup joined a video call with what appeared to be the company's chief financial officer and several colleagues. Every face on the screen was a deepfake. The attackers had spent weeks researching the company's org chart,
