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Spear Phishing: Why Targeted Attacks Beat Your Defenses

In September 2023, MGM Resorts lost roughly $100 million after a threat actor called Scattered Spider used a spear phishing voice call — a single, well-researched phone call to the company's IT help desk — to compromise the entire organization. The attacker already knew the target employee's name,

Carl B. Johnson Jan 17, 2026 8 min read