Explore in-depth articles about phishing attacks, including email phishing, spear phishing, smishing, and vishing. Learn how attackers craft deceptive messages, steal credentials, and compromise systems — and discover proven strategies to detect and block these threats.
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The $4.88 Million Problem Sitting in Your Inbox Right Now In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — essentially sophisticated fake mail — cost victims over $2.9 billion in a single year. That wasn't a spike. It was a trend.
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 880,000 complaints with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion — a 22% increase in losses from the year before. Yet the FBI estimates a massive number of cyber incidents still go unreported. That gap between what happens and
The Email That Cost One Company $100 Million In 2019, Toyota Boshoku Corporation lost $37 million in a single business email compromise attack. A threat actor impersonated a senior executive, convinced a finance employee to change wire transfer details, and the money vanished. That attack started with something deceptively simple
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25.6 million to criminals after a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO. Every person on that call was a deepfake. The attack started with a single phishing email. If
The Typo That Costs Billions: Why "Phising" Lands You Here Here's something I find fascinating — "phising" is one of the most commonly misspelled cybersecurity terms on the internet. If you searched for it, you're in exactly the right place. Phishing (with the
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called a help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and talked their way into the network. No zero-day exploit. No nation-state tooling. Just a phone call. If you want to understand what causes a data breach,
A Single Fraud Ring Stole $6 Million Before Anyone Noticed In 2023, the FBI's IC3 received over 880,000 cybercrime complaints with losses exceeding $12.5 billion — a 22% increase from the prior year. A growing share of those losses came from coordinated fraud operations, not lone hackers
In February 2024, Change Healthcare — the largest medical claims processor in the United States — was hit by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. The attack disrupted billing systems for hospitals and pharmacies nationwide for weeks. UnitedHealth Group later confirmed the breach affected approximately 100 million individuals. If you think your organization
A Teenager Breached Uber. No Malware Required. In September 2022, an 18-year-old compromised Uber's internal systems — not with a sophisticated zero-day exploit, but with a text message. The attacker bombarded an Uber contractor with multi-factor authentication push requests until the contractor finally approved one. From there, the threat
