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In March 2024, a finance employee at a Hong Kong multinational wired $25.6 million to criminals after a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call was a deepfake — a sophisticated spoof that fooled a trained professional
In May 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its annual report showing over $12.5 billion in cybercrime losses for 2023 — with phishing and spoofing topping the list at nearly 300,000 complaints. Now, the FBI warns Gmail users of sophisticated AI-driven phishing attacks that
In May 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that phishing — including sophisticated attacks targeting Gmail users — remained the number one reported cybercrime for the third year running. Over 298,000 phishing complaints landed at IC3 in 2023 alone, and 2024 is tracking even higher. The Gmail
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong transferred $25.6 million after a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call was a deepfake. The attack started, like almost all of them
In January 2024, a finance employee at engineering firm Arup wired $25 million to criminals after a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO. Every person on that call was a deepfake. The attack started the same way almost all of them do — with a
In January 2024, a finance employee at Arup — a multinational engineering firm — joined a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call was a deepfake. The employee transferred $25 million to accounts controlled by threat actors. The attack
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong transferred $25 million after a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call was a deepfake. The whole operation started with a single phishing email.
In December 2017, AOL officially shut down AIM — AOL Instant Messenger — after two decades of dominance. But here's what most people don't realize: millions of old AIM email addresses and their associated credentials are still circulating on dark web marketplaces in 2024. I've personally
The Email That Cost One Company $37 Million In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a sophisticated cousin of phishing — accounted for over $2.9 billion in adjusted losses in 2023 alone. That's not a typo. And those are just
In May 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center released data showing that phishing was still the number one reported cybercrime — for the fifth year running. Over 298,000 complaints in 2023 alone. Despite billions spent on email filters and endpoint protection, threat actors keep winning because the
