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A Single Stolen Password Cost One Company $60 Million In 2023, MGM Resorts got hit by a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to the help desk. The threat actors impersonated an employee, reset credentials, and within hours had enough access to deploy ransomware across the
In March 2024, a threat actor used a simple brute force attack to compromise a Roku employee's credentials, ultimately exposing over 576,000 customer accounts. No zero-day exploit. No sophisticated malware. Just automated password guessing against accounts with weak credentials and no multi-factor authentication. Brute force attack prevention
The Breach That Proved Firewalls Aren't Enough In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor used social engineering — a single phone call to the help desk — to bypass perimeter defenses and move laterally through internal systems. The attackers didn't need to
Capital One Lost 100 Million Records — The Cloud Wasn't the Problem In 2019, a former AWS employee exploited a misconfigured web application firewall and exfiltrated over 100 million Capital One customer records. The cloud infrastructure worked exactly as designed. The humans configuring it didn't. That breach
In January 2024, a threat actor used stolen credentials to compromise a Microsoft executive's email account — no malware, no zero-day exploit, just a password spray attack against a legacy test tenant that lacked multi-factor authentication. Microsoft disclosed the breach publicly, and it became one of the most talked-about
The Breach That Proved "Trust But Verify" Was a Lie In 2020, a threat actor compromised SolarWinds' Orion software update mechanism and silently infiltrated over 18,000 organizations — including multiple U.S. federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies. The attackers didn't blast through firewalls. They
In March 2024, a threat actor compromised a senior executive's email at a mid-size financial firm. The attacker didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability or deploy sophisticated malware. They simply logged in with a stolen password purchased on a dark web marketplace for less than ten dollars.
Most Organizations Read CISA's Advice — Then Ignore the Hard Parts In 2023, the City of Dallas got hit with Royal ransomware. Services went down. Police dispatch systems broke. Recovery took weeks and cost millions. The attack vector? The kind of basic intrusion that CISA cybersecurity guidelines have warned
That Google Alert in Your Inbox Might Be Real — Or It Might Be the Attack Itself Last year, the FBI's IC3 received over 298,000 complaints related to phishing and personal data breaches — and a massive share of those started with a single email that looked exactly like
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 880,000 complaints with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion — and small businesses absorbed a disproportionate share of that damage. I've worked with companies of 15 employees that lost six figures to a single business email
