Phishing awareness articles teach readers to identify and avoid phishing attacks across email, SMS, voice calls, and social media. Content includes real-world phishing examples, red flags to watch for, reporting procedures, and tips for running phishing simulation campaigns.
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In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 phishing complaints — making it the most reported cybercrime for the fifth consecutive year. Yet when I ask executives to give me a phishing definition, most of them still say something like "those fake emails from
A $12.5 Billion Problem That Keeps Getting Worse The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported $12.5 billion in cybercrime losses for 2023 — a 22% jump from the prior year. And the trajectory hasn't slowed. If you're reading this in 2026 and still
The Framework 80% of Organizations Reference — But Few Actually Implement When Change Healthcare suffered its catastrophic ransomware attack in early 2024, disrupting pharmacy operations for millions of Americans, the post-incident analysis pointed to gaps that the NIST Cybersecurity Framework was specifically designed to prevent. Missing multi-factor authentication on a critical
Why Threat Actors Love Targeting Law Firms In 2023, the international firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner disclosed a breach that exposed personal data of over 50,000 individuals — many of them clients of major corporations the firm represented. The attackers didn't need to hack every Fortune 500 company
The Phone Call That Cost One Company $23 Million In early 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong joined a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every person on the screen was a deepfake. The employee transferred
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 phishing complaints — making it the most reported cybercrime category for the fifth consecutive year. Behind nearly every one of those complaints was a single moment: someone clicked a link they shouldn't have. If you&
The Breach That Put Every Law Firm on Notice In 2023, the international law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of over 51,000 individuals — including clients of major corporations like Mondelēz. The firm didn't just lose data. It lost
In 2024, a finance executive at a multinational firm wired $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call impersonated the company's CFO. That wasn't a Hollywood script — it happened in Hong Kong, and it started with a single phishing email. Executive phishing attacks have
In 2024, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor social-engineered a help desk employee with a ten-minute phone call. The attacker didn't write a single line of malicious code. They just talked their way in. That incident alone should end every debate about whether
The Text Message That Cost One Company $15 Million In 2022, Twilio disclosed that a sophisticated smishing campaign tricked several employees into handing over their credentials via text messages impersonating the company's IT department. The attackers then used those stolen credentials to access internal systems and customer data.
