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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
A Castle With No Walls Left to Defend In January 2024, Microsoft disclosed that the Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard had compromised executive email accounts — not by breaching a firewall, but by password-spraying a legacy test tenant account that lacked multi-factor authentication. The attackers moved laterally for weeks before detection.
A Single Home Router Opened the Door to a $4.88M Breach In 2024, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average breach cost at $4.88 million — the highest ever recorded. A significant chunk of those breaches involved remote workers. That number isn'
In January 2024, CISA disclosed that a threat actor had exploited vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure products to breach the agency's own systems. Let that sink in. The federal agency responsible for defending U.S. critical infrastructure got hit. If CISA itself isn't immune, your organization
The Breach That Started With "Company2024!" In January 2024, a mid-size healthcare company lost 2.3 million patient records. The root cause wasn't a sophisticated zero-day exploit. It wasn't a nation-state threat actor. It was an employee who reused the same password across their
In March 2024, a Cisco advisory revealed that a massive brute force campaign was targeting VPN devices, SSH services, and web application portals worldwide — using roughly 28,000 unique IP addresses. The attackers weren't sophisticated. They didn't need to be. They just hammered login pages with
In 2023, a single reused password gave a threat actor access to 23andMe's credential-stuffing attack that exposed the data of nearly 7 million users. The attacker didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability or deploy sophisticated malware. They just tried stolen passwords from other breaches — and millions of
