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The Average Company Runs 130 SaaS Apps — And Secures Maybe Half In early 2024, a threat actor breached Snowflake customer environments — not by exploiting a zero-day, but by using stolen credentials harvested from infostealer malware. The result? Hundreds of millions of records exposed across companies like Ticketmaster and AT&
In 2020, threat actors compromised SolarWinds' Orion software and used it to breach dozens of U.S. government agencies. The attackers moved laterally through networks for months because once they were inside the perimeter, those networks trusted them. That single breach rewrote how the federal government thinks about network
In 2019, a Lithuanian national named Evaldas Rimasauskas pleaded guilty to stealing over $120 million from Google and Facebook using a sophisticated man in the middle attack scheme. He impersonated a legitimate hardware vendor, intercepted invoice communications, and redirected payments to bank accounts he controlled. The scheme ran for two
A $38 Million SIM Swap Should Settle This Debate In January 2024, the SEC's official X (formerly Twitter) account was hijacked. The attacker used a SIM swap to intercept SMS verification codes, then posted a fake announcement about Bitcoin ETF approval that briefly moved markets. The most powerful
The 6-Character Password That Cost a Company $4.88 Million IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average breach cost at $4.88 million. In my experience analyzing post-breach forensics, weak or reused passwords remain the single most common entry point for threat actors.
That Google Alert in Your Inbox Might Be Real — Or It Might Be the Attack Itself Last year, a finance director at a mid-size logistics company got a Gmail account access warning that looked completely legitimate. It warned of a sign-in from an unrecognized device in another country. She clicked
In 2023, the FBI's IC3 received over 880,000 cybercrime complaints with losses exceeding $12.5 billion — and a massive chunk of those victims were everyday people sitting at home computers. Not Fortune 500 companies. Not government agencies. Regular people who thought their home setup was too small
In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 859,000 complaints with losses exceeding $16.6 billion — a 33% increase from the year before. That number isn't slowing down in 2026. I've spent years watching organizations and individuals make the same preventable
In 2023, a single reused password gave threat actors access to 23andMe's credential stuffing attack, ultimately exposing the genetic data of 6.9 million users. The attackers didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They didn't deploy sophisticated malware. They simply tried known username-password combinations from
The Breach That Started With a Single Password In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor social-engineered a help desk employee with a ten-minute phone call. The attackers didn't exploit some exotic zero-day vulnerability. They used basic social engineering — information scraped from LinkedIn
