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In early 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the United States — was brought to its knees by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. The initial entry point? A Citrix remote access portal without multi-factor authentication. That single vulnerability led to the exfiltration of data affecting roughly
The Breach That Started With a Single Click In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor social-engineered the company's IT help desk with a ten-minute phone call. The attacker didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They didn't brute-force a password.
The Bill Nobody Plans For IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average at $4.88 million — a 10% jump from the prior year and the highest figure ever recorded. That number has only continued climbing. When I talk to business owners about the
In 2023, a single compromised employee phone at MGM Resorts led to a social engineering attack that cost the company over $100 million. The threat actor didn't hack a firewall or exploit a zero-day. They called the help desk from information scraped off LinkedIn and a mobile device.
The Coffee Shop Breach That Cost $6.5 Million In 2024, a mid-size financial services firm discovered that a single remote employee working from a hotel lobby had their session token hijacked through a man-in-the-middle attack on the hotel's Wi-Fi. The threat actor used that access to move
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center flagged Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) as one of the top three initial access vectors used in ransomware incidents. That wasn't a surprise to anyone who's worked an incident response engagement. I've personally investigated breaches
In 2019, a Lithuanian national named Evaldas Rimasauskas pleaded guilty to stealing over $120 million from Google and Facebook using a sophisticated man in the middle attack scheme. He impersonated a legitimate hardware vendor, intercepted invoice communications, and redirected payments to bank accounts he controlled. The scheme ran for two
In April 2024, researchers at Akamai discovered a massive DNS hijacking campaign targeting financial institutions across Southeast Asia. Attackers poisoned DNS caches at the ISP level, silently redirecting thousands of banking customers to pixel-perfect phishing sites. Victims entered their credentials on pages that looked identical to their bank's
The Breach Bill Nobody Budgets For IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report put the global average at $4.88 million — a 10% jump from the prior year and the highest figure ever recorded. If you think 2026 will somehow reverse that trend, I've got
The Invoice That Took Down a Hospital Network In 2023, a hospital system in Illinois watched helplessly as Qakbot — a trojan horse malware strain — moved laterally through its entire Active Directory environment in under four hours. The initial infection? A single employee opened what looked like an overdue vendor invoice
