Discover resources and best practices for phishing awareness training programs that teach employees and individuals to recognize and report phishing attempts. These articles cover simulation exercises, training metrics, and building a phishing-resistant culture.
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A 3-Minute Phone Call Cost One Company $37 Million In early 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm joined a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every face on the screen was a deepfake. The employee transferred $25.6 million
A Single Phone Call Cost One Company $25 Million In early 2024, a finance worker at engineering firm Arup was tricked into wiring $25 million after a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO — deepfake technology made the voice and face indistinguishable from the real
In 2024, MGM Resorts lost roughly $100 million after a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to their help desk. The attacker didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They didn't brute-force a password. They manipulated a human being. And that's the
AI-generated phishing emails are nearly indistinguishable from legitimate messages. Here is how to build a phishing awareness training program that gives employees the skills to spot them.
Modern phishing emails look exactly like the real thing. No typos, no suspicious attachments — just a convincing message designed to make you act without thinking. Here is how to spot them.
In March 2025, a mid-size logistics company in the Midwest lost $2.3 million after a single employee clicked a fake DocuSign link. The attacker harvested credentials, pivoted into the company's financial systems, and initiated wire transfers over a long weekend. The employee had never received phishing awareness
Why Threat Actors Love Targeting Law Firms In February 2024, global law firm Allen & Overy confirmed a ransomware attack by the LockBit group that compromised internal data. That same year, the American Bar Association reported that 29% of law firms surveyed had experienced a security breach at some point.
The Sector Threat Actors Love to Target In September 2023, the University of Michigan shut down its entire network for days after detecting a significant cybersecurity incident. Classes were disrupted. Hospital systems were affected. Roughly 230,000 individuals later learned their personal data had been compromised. This wasn't
The 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report landed last month, and one number should keep every business owner awake at night: 82% of breaches involved the human element. Phishing, stolen credentials, pretexting, human error — threat actors aren't picking locks. They're asking your employees to hold the
A $4.24 Million Problem That a Browser Tab Could Fix In 2021, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average cost of a breach at $4.24 million — the highest in 17 years. Here's the part that should keep you up at
