Comprehensive resources on securing laptops, desktops, mobile devices, and other endpoints that connect to your network. Covers endpoint detection and response tools, device hardening, patch management, encryption, and policies that minimize the attack surface across distributed environments.
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In September 2023, MGM Resorts watched helplessly as its systems went dark — slot machines frozen, hotel check-ins offline, operations paralyzed for ten days. The estimated cost exceeded $100 million. The attack vector? Social engineering that led to credential theft, which opened the door for malware deployment across the enterprise. That&
In March 2024, security researchers at Fortinet uncovered a campaign distributing Snake Keylogger through phishing emails disguised as payment remittance notices. The malware silently captured credentials from over 280 banking and email applications before exfiltrating everything to attacker-controlled Telegram bots. The victims had no idea. Every password, every credit card
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
The Virus That Cost a Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2017, the NotPetya malware ripped through networks worldwide. It wasn't theoretical. Nuance Communications, a major healthcare IT vendor, took a $92 million hit. Maersk, the shipping giant, lost around $300 million. Heritage Valley Health System in Pennsylvania lost
In March 2023, Samsung employees accidentally leaked sensitive source code and internal meeting notes by pasting proprietary data into ChatGPT — on their mobile devices. No malware was involved. No sophisticated threat actor broke through a firewall. Employees simply used their phones in ways the company's mobile device security
In January 2023, T-Mobile disclosed that a threat actor had stolen data on 37 million customer accounts — and the intrusion reportedly exploited an API accessible from systems that included employee-used devices. It wasn't a sophisticated zero-day. It was a gap in how endpoints and access were managed. If
In January 2022, the FBI issued a public warning that the cybercriminal group FIN7 had been mailing malicious USB drives to U.S. companies — disguised as packages from Amazon and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The drives, once plugged in, deployed ransomware onto corporate networks. This
In 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 800,000 complaints with losses exceeding $10.3 billion — and malware was the engine behind a staggering number of those incidents. I've spent years watching organizations get blindsided not because they lacked firewalls, but because
In February 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that malware-related complaints had surged again, with losses running into the hundreds of millions. Buried in those numbers is a distinction most people get wrong: adware vs spyware. I've watched organizations treat adware as a minor
