Explores strategies and best practices for preventing data breaches in organizations of all sizes. Covers topics like access controls, encryption, network monitoring, incident response planning, and employee awareness to help reduce the risk of unauthorized data exposure.
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In March 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25.6 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call convinced him his CFO had authorized the transfer. One employee. One convincing lure. Twenty-five million dollars gone. That's not a hypothetical — it'
In January 2024, a finance employee at engineering firm Arup wired $25 million to threat actors after joining a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call was a deepfake. The attack started the same way almost all
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call convinced him his CFO had authorized the transfer. It started with a phishing email. Every catastrophic breach I've investigated over the past decade traces
In January 2024, a single phishing email led to the breach of roughly 26 billion records in what researchers dubbed the "Mother of All Breaches" — a compilation leak aggregating data from LinkedIn, Twitter, Dropbox, and dozens of other platforms. That staggering number puts something into sharp focus: every
In January 2023, Reddit disclosed that an attacker had used a carefully crafted phishing email — targeting a specific employee with internal details about the company — to steal credentials and access internal systems. It wasn't a mass-blast scam. It was a precision strike. That's spear phishing in
The Phone Call That Cost One Company $25 Million In early 2024, an employee at British engineering firm Arup joined a video call with what appeared to be the company's chief financial officer and several colleagues. Every face on the screen was a deepfake. The employee, convinced by
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
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call convinced him his CFO had authorized the transfer. The employee had doubts. He hesitated. But the faces on screen looked real, the voices sounded right, and
The $4.88 Million Lesson Your Employees Haven't Learned Yet In January 2024, the SEC's own X (formerly Twitter) account was hijacked because someone fell for a SIM-swap attack. If the agency that regulates public companies can't keep its own accounts secure, what does
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong transferred $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call convinced him his CFO had authorized the payment. No malware. No zero-day exploit. Just a well-trained employee who wasn't trained well enough. That incident
