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The Breach That Started With a Single Stolen Password In January 2024, a threat actor used stolen credentials to access a Snowflake customer environment — no malware, no exploit, just a username and password harvested months earlier. The fallout hit Ticketmaster and AT&T, exposing hundreds of millions of records.
In May 2022, a Yahoo research scientist named Qian Sang downloaded roughly 570,000 pages of proprietary source code to his personal devices — minutes after receiving a job offer from a competitor. Yahoo's internal systems flagged it, but only after the data had already left. That incident is
In January 2024, a penetration tester hired by the Iowa State Court Administration was arrested for breaking into a courthouse — even though he had a signed contract to test physical security. The incident made national news and sparked a legal battle. But it also exposed something most organizations ignore: the
In 2023, a Ponemon Institute study sponsored by 3M found that 91% of visual hacking attempts — someone simply looking at a screen — were successful. No malware. No zero-day exploit. No phishing email. Just a person standing in the right place at the right time, reading credentials off someone else'
In September 2024, a security researcher discovered a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in a major email platform that allowed attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript the moment a victim opened a crafted message. No clicks required beyond reading the email. The vulnerability sat unpatched for weeks. If you think XSS is
In January 2024, a single employee at a mid-sized accounting firm double-clicked a file named Invoice_Final_v2.exe. Within 40 minutes, the LockBit ransomware variant had encrypted 14,000 files across three networked drives. The ransom demand was $2.2 million. The firm's antivirus was installed. It
In February 2024, a misconfigured system at Change Healthcare led to one of the most devastating ransomware attacks in U.S. healthcare history. The ALPHV/BlackCat group exploited a Citrix remote access portal that lacked multi-factor authentication — a basic security for system control that should have been in place years
In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health technology companies in the U.S. — got hit with a ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacies, hospitals, and insurance claims processing across the entire country. UnitedHealth Group confirmed the breach affected a substantial portion of the American population. The attack vector?
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25.6 million to threat actors after joining a video call where every other participant — including the company's CFO — was a deepfake. The attackers had spent weeks studying publicly available video of those executives,
In January 2024, a finance employee at engineering firm Arup wired $25 million to threat actors after joining a video call where every other participant — including the CFO — was a deepfake. The attackers had studied publicly available footage, cloned voices and faces, and orchestrated an elaborate social engineering attack that
