Addresses the tactics attackers use to steal login credentials and the countermeasures organizations can deploy. Topics include multi-factor authentication, credential monitoring, dark web surveillance, secure authentication protocols, and employee awareness training.
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In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25.6 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call that started with a single phishing email. The attackers spoofed the company's CFO — and the employee never questioned it. That wire transfer began
In January 2024, a single phishing email led to the breach of roughly 26 billion records in what researchers dubbed the "Mother of All Breaches" — a compilation leak aggregating data from LinkedIn, Twitter, Dropbox, and dozens of other platforms. That staggering number puts something into sharp focus: every
In January 2024, Microsoft disclosed that a Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Midnight Blizzard had breached executive email accounts — not through some exotic zero-day exploit, but through a simple password spray attack on a legacy test account that lacked multi-factor authentication. If Microsoft can get caught flat-footed, your organization
The Breach That Cost MGM Resorts Over $100 Million In September 2023, a threat actor called Scattered Spider brought MGM Resorts to its knees — not with some exotic zero-day exploit, but with a phone call. A social engineering attack against the company's IT help desk gave attackers the
The Breach That Started With a Single Reused Password In September 2023, MGM Resorts International lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor social-engineered their way into systems — and weak credential hygiene played a central role. That incident didn't start with a sophisticated zero-day exploit. It started
The Breach That Started With "Company123!" In September 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor used social engineering to compromise employee credentials. The attack didn't require some sophisticated zero-day exploit. It started with identity — with passwords and people. And it'
In September 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor bypassed their security by socially engineering a helpdesk employee into resetting MFA credentials. Let that sink in. The company had multi-factor authentication. It still wasn't enough — because the multi-factor authentication setup and the processes
The Password That Cost One Company $4.4 Billion In 2017, Equifax suffered a breach that exposed 147 million records and eventually cost the company over $4 billion in total losses and settlements. One of the contributing factors? Weak internal credential management. The admin username and password for a critical
Your Remote Workforce Is Your Largest Attack Surface In March 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported that losses from cybercrime exceeded $10.3 billion in 2022 — a 49% increase from the year before. A massive chunk of those losses traced back to compromised remote workers.
The Industry That Gets Hit Hardest — and Most Often In January 2023, ION Trading Technologies — a critical software vendor serving derivatives traders worldwide — got hit with a LockBit ransomware attack that forced dozens of financial institutions back to manual trade processing. For days. In one of the most automated industries
