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Stay up to date with the latest phishing campaigns, newly discovered attack vectors, and industry responses to evolving phishing threats. These timely articles report on real-world incidents and provide actionable takeaways to strengthen your defenses.

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Phishing News 2025: The Attacks Rewriting the Rules

A Single Phishing Email Cost One Company $60 Million In early 2025, Orion SA, a Luxembourg-based metals company, disclosed that a business email compromise (BEC) phishing attack had tricked employees into wiring approximately $60 million to attacker-controlled accounts. That's not a typo. One phishing campaign. Sixty million dollars.

Carl B. Johnson Nov 28, 2025 7 min read
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Phishing News 2024: Attacks That Should Scare You

The Phishing Headlines Keep Getting Worse In January 2024, a finance worker at engineering firm Arup wired $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call that impersonated the company's CFO. That single incident captures everything terrifying about the current phishing news cycle: attacks are smarter, faster,

Carl B. Johnson Jul 23, 2024 6 min read
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Phishing News: The Attacks Dominating 2022 So Far

In August 2022, Twilio disclosed that a sophisticated phishing campaign had compromised employee credentials and exposed data tied to over 130 organizations — including the encrypted messaging giant Signal. A month earlier, a massive phishing operation dubbed "0ktapus" by researchers at Group-IB had already hit over 130 companies. If

Carl B. Johnson Sep 04, 2022 6 min read
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Phishing News: The Attacks Dominating 2021 So Far

2021's Phishing Landscape Is Unlike Anything We've Seen Before In March, Microsoft reported that a massive phishing campaign had targeted over 10,000 organizations since January 2021, using sophisticated OAuth token theft to bypass multi-factor authentication. That single campaign should have been a wake-up call. Instead,

Carl B. Johnson Jul 13, 2021 7 min read
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Phishing News: The Attacks Reshaping 2026 Security

A Single Phishing Email Just Cost a Healthcare System $65 Million If you follow phishing news, you already know the headlines keep getting worse. Change Healthcare's 2024 breach — triggered by compromised credentials and the absence of multi-factor authentication — led to a reported $22 billion disruption across the U.

Carl B. Johnson Mar 20, 2019 7 min read