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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The Email That Cost One Company $37 Million In 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 that call was a deepfake. The employee authorized $25.6 million in transfers
One Invoice, One Email, $47 Million Gone In 2024, Orion Engineering lost $47 million to a single fraudulent wire transfer. The attacker didn't hack a firewall or exploit a zero-day. They compromised a vendor's email account, inserted themselves into an ongoing invoice thread, and changed the
Every October, Organizations Pretend to Care About Security Last October, a mid-sized healthcare company ran a poster campaign for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Inspirational quotes about passwords. A lunch-and-learn nobody attended. Two weeks later, a threat actor walked through their defenses using a single phishing email that an accounts payable clerk
The Breach That Cost a 12-Person Company Everything In 2023, a small accounting firm in Sacramento lost access to every client file it had. A single employee clicked a link in what looked like a DocuSign notification. Within four hours, ransomware had encrypted the entire network. The ransom demand was
The Accountant Who Cost Her Company $2.3 Million She wasn't careless. She wasn't stupid. She was a 15-year veteran of her firm's finance department, and she followed what she thought was a legitimate email from the CEO asking for an urgent wire transfer.
The $1.1 Billion Problem You Can't Afford to Ignore In 2023, ransomware payments exceeded $1.1 billion globally, according to Chainalysis. That number only captured what was paid — not the downtime, legal fees, regulatory penalties, or permanent reputational damage. I've worked with organizations that survived
The Attack That Shut Down 100 Million Prescriptions In February 2024, a ransomware attack on Change Healthcare paralyzed pharmacy operations across the United States. Hospitals couldn't process claims. Patients couldn't fill prescriptions. UnitedHealth Group ultimately disclosed the breach affected roughly 100 million individuals — the largest healthcare
A Single Click Cost One Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2024, Change Healthcare — the payment processing backbone for thousands of U.S. healthcare providers — was crippled by a ransomware attack attributed to the ALPHV/BlackCat group. UnitedHealth Group, Change Healthcare's parent company, disclosed that the incident cost over
The Breach That Cost Change Healthcare Everything In February 2024, a threat actor used stolen credentials to access Change Healthcare's systems — systems that lacked multi-factor authentication on a critical remote access portal. The result? A ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacy operations across the United States for weeks and
A Single Breach Now Costs More Than Most Companies Budget for Security All Year IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average at $4.88 million — a 10% jump from the prior year and the highest figure ever recorded. If you think the cost
