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A Teenager Breached Uber. No Malware Required. In September 2022, an 18-year-old compromised Uber's internal systems — not with a sophisticated zero-day exploit, but with a text message. The attacker bombarded an Uber contractor with multi-factor authentication push requests until the contractor finally approved one. From there, the threat
In late 2024, security researchers at Avanan documented a surge of phishing campaigns that weaponized legitimate DocuSign and PayPal infrastructure to deliver convincing credential theft attacks. The emails didn't come from spoofed domains. They came from the actual DocuSign and PayPal platforms — which is exactly why they sailed
One Click Cost This Company $100 Million In 2023, MGM Resorts was brought to its knees — not by a sophisticated zero-day exploit, but by a phone call. A threat actor called the help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and gained enough access to deploy ransomware across the entire
The Text Message That Cost One Company $15 Million In 2022, threat actors hit Twilio with an SMS-based social engineering attack that compromised employee credentials and exposed data for over 160 customers. The attack didn't involve a sophisticated zero-day exploit. It started with a text message pretending to
Last March, a finance director at a mid-size logistics company wired $2.1 million to a threat actor who had spoofed the CEO's email address. The message looked perfect — right tone, right signature, right sense of urgency. The only thing wrong was the reply-to domain, off by a
That "Unsubscribe" Link Just Installed Malware on Your Network In January 2024, a mid-size accounting firm in Ohio lost access to every client file it had. The entry point wasn't a sophisticated zero-day exploit. It was a single spam email disguised as a shipping notification from
In 2023, a single employee at MGM Resorts used a corporate credential to respond to a social engineering call. The threat actor impersonated IT, gained access, and triggered a ransomware attack that cost the company over $100 million. The kicker? A well-enforced acceptable use policy — one that clearly defined how
The Clock Starts Ticking the Second You Discover a Breach In March 2024, Change Healthcare suffered a ransomware attack that exposed the protected health information of over 100 million individuals. The fallout wasn't just technical — it was a cascading failure in communication, notification, and reporting that took months
A Single Stolen Password Cost This Company $60 Million In 2023, MGM Resorts International was brought to its knees — not by a sophisticated zero-day exploit, but by a phone call. A threat actor called the help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and gained access to internal systems. The
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost roughly $100 million after a social engineering attack bypassed every piece of computer security software they had deployed. The attackers didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They didn't brute-force a firewall. They called the help desk, impersonated an employee, and walked right
