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That "Unsubscribe" Click Just Cost Someone Their Entire Network Last year, I worked with a mid-size logistics company that lost access to every file server, customer database, and email system they had. The entry point? A single spam email disguised as a shipping notification. One employee clicked an
A Single Stolen Password Cost One Company $60 Million In 2023, MGM Resorts got hit by a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to the help desk. The threat actors impersonated an employee, reset credentials, and within hours had enough access to deploy ransomware across the
In March 2024, a threat actor used a simple brute force attack to compromise a Roku employee's credentials, ultimately exposing over 576,000 customer accounts. No zero-day exploit. No sophisticated malware. Just automated password guessing against accounts with weak credentials and no multi-factor authentication. Brute force attack prevention
The Breach That Proved Firewalls Aren't Enough In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor used social engineering — a single phone call to the help desk — to bypass perimeter defenses and move laterally through internal systems. The attackers didn't need to
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost roughly $100 million from a single social engineering phone call. A threat actor called the help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and within minutes had the credentials needed to deploy ransomware across the entire enterprise. That's not a firewall failure. That&
A Single Email Cost This Company $121 Million In 2019, a Lithuanian national named Evaldas Rimasauskas pleaded guilty to stealing over $121 million from Google and Facebook. His weapon wasn't malware. It wasn't a zero-day exploit. It was phishing — forged emails impersonating a legitimate hardware vendor,
Last year, a mid-size accounting firm in Ohio lost $1.2 million after a single employee clicked one link in a spoofed Microsoft 365 email. The link looked like a routine password-reset page. It wasn't. Within 90 minutes, a threat actor had harvested credentials, bypassed weak authentication, and
What a Phish Setlist Actually Means for Your Security Team When the band Phish takes the stage, they never play the same setlist twice. Every show is crafted for the audience. Your phishing simulation program should work the same way. A phish setlist — a curated, rotating collection of phishing attack
In 2023, the FBI dismantled a cybercriminal operation that used the Snake malware — a sophisticated keylogger that had quietly exfiltrated credentials from government networks across 50 countries for nearly two decades. Every password. Every internal message. Every classified document typed into a keyboard. That's the reality of a
Capital One Lost 100 Million Records — The Cloud Wasn't the Problem In 2019, a former AWS employee exploited a misconfigured web application firewall and exfiltrated over 100 million Capital One customer records. The cloud infrastructure worked exactly as designed. The humans configuring it didn't. That breach
