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In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 phishing complaints — making it the most reported cybercrime category for the fifth consecutive year. Behind nearly every one of those complaints was a single moment: someone clicked a link they shouldn't have. If you&
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost roughly $100 million after a social engineering phone call lasting just ten minutes gave a threat actor access to internal systems. The attackers didn't exploit some exotic zero-day vulnerability. They manipulated a help desk employee. If your cyber security definition starts and stops
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 phishing complaints — making it the most reported cybercrime category for the fifth consecutive year. I've investigated phishing incidents at organizations of every size, from ten-person startups to Fortune 500 companies. The pattern is always
In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 phishing complaints — making it the most reported cybercrime category for the fifth consecutive year. Despite billions spent on security tools, phishing remains the number one way threat actors break into organizations. So let's actually
A Single Email Cost This Company $100 Million In 2019, Toyota Boshoku Corporation lost $37 million to a single business email compromise attack. A threat actor impersonated a senior executive and convinced a finance employee to change wire transfer details. The money vanished. That's phishing — not some abstract
A Hospital Paid $475,000 Because Someone Skipped the Basics In 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services settled with a healthcare provider for $475,000 after a phishing attack exposed patient records. The root cause wasn't a sophisticated zero-day exploit. It was a lack
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor socially engineered an IT help desk employee with a single phone call. That one incident tells you more about what cybersecurity actually is — and isn't — than any textbook ever could. If you've ever
In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 phishing complaints — making it the most reported cybercrime category for the fifth consecutive year. Despite billions spent on cybersecurity tools, a single deceptive email still opens the door to catastrophic breaches. If you've ever
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 phishing complaints — making it the most reported cybercrime category for the fifth consecutive year. I've investigated dozens of breaches that started with a single deceptive email. So when someone asks me what is a
The Textbook Got It Wrong In 2023, MGM Resorts lost roughly $100 million after a threat actor social-engineered their IT help desk with a single phone call. The attackers didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They didn't write custom malware. They just talked their way in. If
