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One Click Cost MGM Resorts $100 Million In September 2023, a threat actor called Scattered Spider called MGM Resorts' IT help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and gained access to the company's entire network. The result: over $100 million in losses, days of disrupted operations,
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called Scattered Spider social-engineered their way past an IT help desk — with a single phone call. That one interaction led to a ransomware attack that shut down slot machines, hotel check-ins, and digital key cards across Las
The Redundancy in "Computer Security Security" Is the Whole Point When the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack shut down fuel distribution across the U.S. Southeast in 2021, the root cause wasn't exotic. It was a single compromised VPN credential without multi-factor authentication. One layer failed, and
Your Employees Are the Breach — 68% of the Time The 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 68% of breaches involved a non-malicious human element — someone clicked a phishing link, reused a password, or misconfigured a system. That number has held stubbornly steady for years. If you're
One Click Cost This Company $100 Million In 2023, MGM Resorts was brought to its knees — not by a sophisticated zero-day exploit, but by a phone call. A threat actor called the help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and gained enough access to deploy ransomware across the entire
A Single Unpatched Laptop Cost One Hospital $3 Million In 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services settled with a healthcare provider after a ransomware attack that started on one employee's unpatched workstation. The machine hadn't been updated in over 90 days. That
In March 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $12.5 billion to cybercrime in 2023 alone — and phone-based fraud, driven largely by spoofing caller techniques, remains one of the fastest-growing categories. I've watched organizations with solid email security get gutted
The Breach That Rewrote the Rules of Computer Security In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the United States — suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted claims processing for hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics across the country. UnitedHealth Group, its parent company, disclosed in its SEC
In March 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $16 billion to cybercrime in 2024 — a 33% increase from the prior year. That number isn't abstract. It represents real people and real businesses that thought their defenses were good enough. I&
In March 2025, a mid-size accounting firm in the Midwest lost $2.1 million after a single employee clicked a spoofed DocuSign link during tax season. The firm had antivirus software. They had a firewall. What they didn't have was phishing simulation training — the one layer of defense
