Delivers actionable advice on recognizing and preventing phishing attacks, including email phishing, spear phishing, smishing, and vishing. Covers detection techniques, employee training approaches, email security tools, and real-world phishing examples to strengthen your defenses.
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In March 2021, a single phishing email led to a credential theft incident at a mid-size manufacturing firm in Ohio. The attacker impersonated the CEO, asked the controller to update direct deposit information, and walked away with $1.7 million. The email had two typos, a slightly wrong domain, and
In December 2020, the Treasury Department and the Department of Commerce confirmed they'd been breached through a supply chain attack that started, in part, with carefully crafted phishing emails targeting key personnel. If federal agencies with dedicated security teams can get caught, your organization isn't immune
In 2020, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received 19,369 business email compromise complaints. The adjusted losses? A staggering $1.8 billion — making BEC the single most financially devastating cybercrime category in the FBI IC3 2020 Internet Crime Report. That's more than ransomware, more than
In January 2021, the FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory warning about a surge in vishing attacks targeting corporate employees working from home. Threat actors were calling employees directly, impersonating IT help desks, and convincing them to hand over VPN credentials. Within hours, attackers had access to internal networks,
The Phone Call That Cost One Company $75 Million In 2020, a teenager orchestrated one of the most high-profile social engineering attacks in history. He called Twitter employees, posed as IT staff, and convinced them to hand over credentials to internal tools. Within hours, he'd hijacked accounts belonging
The Receptionist Who Handed Over the Keys to the Kingdom In 2020, a Twitter employee received a phone call from someone claiming to be from the company's IT department. That single social engineering call — combined with a handful of others — led to the compromise of 130 high-profile accounts,
The Attack That Shut Down a Pipeline — and a Wake-Up Call for Everyone In February 2020, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published an alert after a ransomware attack forced a natural gas compression facility to shut down for two full days. The threat actor got in through a
A Hospital Paid $17 Million. Your Organization Could Be Next. In September 2020, Universal Health Services got hit with Ryuk ransomware across 400 facilities. The damage? An estimated $67 million in recovery costs and lost revenue. A few months earlier, Garmin paid a reported $10 million ransom to get its
In December 2020, SolarWinds disclosed that threat actors had compromised its Orion software platform, ultimately breaching at least nine U.S. federal agencies and over 100 private companies. The attack went undetected for months. It wasn't a zero-day exploit that got them in — it was a compromised build
A Single Stolen Password Cost One Company $3.86 Million That's the average cost of a data breach in 2020, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report. And in nearly every major data breach example from recent years, the root cause wasn't
