Articles on cybersecurity awareness cover the foundational knowledge individuals and organizations need to recognize and respond to digital threats. Topics include safe browsing habits, password hygiene, social engineering tactics, and building a security-first culture across teams.
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The 23 Billion Reasons Your Password Probably Isn't Good Enough In January 2024, researchers discovered a file called "RockYou2024" floating around dark web forums. It contained roughly 9.9 billion unique plaintext passwords — the largest credential dump in history at the time. By early 2025, threat
The Breach That Nobody Reported for 72 Days In 2023, the SEC charged SolarWinds' CISO with fraud partly because the company allegedly downplayed the severity of a cyber incident and failed to disclose material risks. That case sent shockwaves through every boardroom in America. It proved something I'
In May 2022, a Yahoo research scientist named Qian Sang downloaded roughly 570,000 pages of proprietary source code to his personal devices — just two weeks after accepting a job at a competitor. Yahoo's internal systems flagged the bulk transfer, but only after the damage was done. This
In May 2024, Check Point disclosed that threat actors were actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in its VPN products — CVE-2024-24919 — to harvest Active Directory credentials and move laterally through enterprise networks. Attackers didn't need a sophisticated exploit chain. They needed one VPN gateway running a default configuration with
In 2023, a healthcare organization in the Midwest lost over 2,000 patient records — not because a hacker exploited a zero-day vulnerability, but because an employee left printed patient lists on their desk over the weekend. A cleaning contractor photographed them. That's it. No malware, no phishing email,
Your Stolen Password Is Already For Sale Somewhere In January 2024, a dataset called "Naz.API" surfaced on dark web forums containing over 70 million unique email addresses paired with plaintext passwords. The data had been harvested from credential-stealing malware installed on everyday people's computers. If
A Single Click Cost MGM Resorts $100 Million In September 2023, a threat actor called Scattered Spider used social engineering to trick an MGM Resorts help desk employee into resetting credentials. Within hours, they deployed malware across MGM's network — crippling hotel check-ins, slot machines, and digital room keys
In March 2024, security researchers at Fortinet uncovered a campaign distributing Snake Keylogger through phishing emails disguised as payment remittance notices. The malware silently captured credentials from over 280 banking and email applications before exfiltrating everything to attacker-controlled Telegram bots. The victims had no idea. Every password, every credit card
In January 2024, security researchers at Sekoia documented a massive adversary-in-the-middle campaign that used phishing kits to intercept Microsoft 365 credentials and session tokens in real time — bypassing multi-factor authentication entirely. The attack wasn't theoretical. It hit thousands of organizations across multiple industries. And it reminded every security
$4.88 Million Per Breach — and Phishing Opens the Door In January 2024, a finance worker at multinational firm Arup sent $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call that impersonated company executives. The attack started with a single phishing email. One message. Twenty-five million dollars gone. That
