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In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the U.S. — got hit with a ransomware attack that disrupted claims processing for weeks and exposed data on roughly 100 million individuals. The root cause? Compromised credentials on a system that lacked multi-factor authentication. That'
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
October Ends. The Phishing Emails Don't. Every October, organizations plaster break rooms with cybersecurity posters, blast out a few reminder emails, and call it a win. Then November rolls around, and the same employees click the same malicious links. I've watched this cycle repeat for over
MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million in September 2023 because a threat actor called an IT help desk, impersonated an employee, and talked their way into a privileged account. No zero-day exploit. No nation-state malware. Just a phone call and a human who hadn't been trained to
In January 2024, Microsoft disclosed that the Russian threat actor group Midnight Blizzard had breached corporate email accounts — not through some exotic zero-day exploit, but through a password spray attack on a legacy test account that lacked multi-factor authentication. One of the most well-resourced technology companies on the planet got
The FTC Settlement That Should Make You Rethink Your Training Program In January 2023, the FTC finalized a settlement with Drizly and its CEO after a data breach exposed the personal information of roughly 2.5 million consumers. The kicker? The FTC specifically called out the company's failure
A Single Employee Click Cost MGM Resorts $100 Million In September 2023, MGM Resorts International disclosed a devastating cyberattack that disrupted hotel operations, slot machines, and reservation systems across Las Vegas. The attack vector? A social engineering phone call. A threat actor impersonated an employee, called the IT help desk,
In January 2023, T-Mobile disclosed that a threat actor had stolen data on roughly 37 million customer accounts by exploiting a single API vulnerability. But here's what most people missed in the headlines — the breach went undetected for over a month. That's not just a technology
When MGM Resorts got hit with a devastating social engineering attack in September 2023, it wasn't a firewall failure. It wasn't a zero-day exploit. A threat actor called the help desk, impersonated an employee, and walked right through the front door. The estimated cost? Over $100
