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In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25 million to threat actors — all because of a phishing email that led to a deepfake video call. That incident made global headlines, but here's what didn't: the thousands of nearly identical
One Email Cost This Company $100 Million In 2019, Toyota Boshoku Corporation — a major Toyota parts supplier — lost $37 million after an employee wired funds to a fraudster posing as a legitimate business partner. That same year, Nikkei's American subsidiary lost $29 million to a nearly identical scheme.
In January 2024, a finance employee at engineering firm Arup wired $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call that impersonated the company's CFO. That attack didn't start with a mass spam blast. It started with a carefully researched, individually targeted spear phishing email.
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call convinced him his CFO had authorized the transfer. It started with a phishing email. Every catastrophic breach I've investigated over the past decade traces
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25.6 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call that started with a single phishing email. The attackers spoofed the company's CFO — and the employee never questioned it. That wire transfer began
In January 2024, a single phishing email led to the breach of roughly 26 billion records in what researchers dubbed the "Mother of All Breaches" — a compilation leak aggregating data from LinkedIn, Twitter, Dropbox, and dozens of other platforms. That staggering number puts something into sharp focus: every
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call convinced him his CFO had authorized the transfer. The employee had doubts. He hesitated. But the faces on screen looked real, the voices sounded right, and
The $4.88 Million Lesson Your Employees Haven't Learned Yet In January 2024, the SEC's own X (formerly Twitter) account was hijacked because someone fell for a SIM-swap attack. If the agency that regulates public companies can't keep its own accounts secure, what does
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong transferred $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call convinced him his CFO had authorized the payment. No malware. No zero-day exploit. Just a well-trained employee who wasn't trained well enough. That incident
In January 2024, Microsoft disclosed that a Russian threat actor group — Midnight Blizzard — had breached executive email accounts using a simple password spray attack against a legacy test account that lacked multi-factor authentication. One of the most technically sophisticated companies on the planet, compromised by one of the oldest tricks
