Posts exploring how attackers steal usernames, passwords, and authentication tokens through phishing, keylogging, brute force attacks, and credential stuffing. Includes actionable guidance on multi-factor authentication, password managers, and monitoring for compromised credentials.
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In 2023, a single phishing email cost MGM Resorts an estimated $100 million. The threat actor didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability or deploy exotic malware. They called the help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and got a password reset. That's it. If you'
A $4.88 Million Problem That Starts With One Email In 2024, the average cost of a data breach hit $4.88 million globally, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report. The number one initial attack vector? Phishing. Not sophisticated zero-day exploits. Not nation-state hackers tunneling
In 2024, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average cost of a single breach at $4.88 million — the highest figure ever recorded. And yet, when I talk to business owners after an incident, most of them ask the same question: How did this
A Single Email Cost This Company $47 Million In 2016, Austrian aerospace firm FACC lost €42 million (roughly $47 million USD) after threat actors impersonated the CEO in a carefully crafted email to the finance department. The employee who wired the money believed they were following a direct executive order.
A Single Email Cost This Company $47 Million In 2016, FACC, an Austrian aerospace parts manufacturer, lost €42 million (roughly $47 million USD) after an employee wired funds based on instructions that appeared to come from the CEO. The email was fake. The money vanished into accounts controlled by threat
A Single Email Cost This Company $100 Million In 2019, Toyota Boshoku Corporation — a major Toyota parts supplier — lost $37 million after employees wired funds to accounts controlled by attackers who impersonated a business partner via email. Facebook and Google collectively lost over $100 million to a Lithuanian man who
3,389 Reasons to Worry About Your Open RDP Ports In 2023, the FBI's IC3 received over 880,000 cybercrime complaints with losses exceeding $12.5 billion — and a staggering number of those incidents traced back to compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections. I've personally responded
In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the U.S. — was hit by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. The attack disrupted claims processing for hospitals and pharmacies nationwide, exposed protected health information for an estimated 100 million people, and reportedly led to a $22
The Average Company Runs 130 SaaS Apps — And Secures Maybe Half In early 2024, a threat actor breached Snowflake customer environments — not by exploiting a zero-day, but by using stolen credentials harvested from infostealer malware. The result? Hundreds of millions of records exposed across companies like Ticketmaster and AT&
A Single Misconfigured S3 Bucket Exposed 540 Million Facebook Records Back in 2019, researchers at UpGuard discovered that two third-party Facebook app developers had left hundreds of millions of user records sitting in publicly accessible Amazon S3 buckets. No hacking required. No sophisticated exploit. Just wide-open cloud storage that anyone
