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In March 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $16 billion to cybercrime in 2024 — a 33% increase from the prior year. That number isn't abstract. It represents real people and real businesses that thought their defenses were good enough. I&
In February 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory about threat actors linked to Volt Typhoon — a Chinese state-sponsored group that had been living inside U.S. critical infrastructure networks for years. One of their signature moves? They removed legitimate security tools and logging mechanisms from
In January 2024, a single employee at a mid-sized accounting firm double-clicked a file named Invoice_Final_v2.exe. Within 40 minutes, the LockBit ransomware variant had encrypted 14,000 files across three networked drives. The ransom demand was $2.2 million. The firm's antivirus was installed. It
A $12.5 Billion Problem Nobody Can Ignore The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported $12.5 billion in losses from cybercrime in 2023 — a 22% increase from the prior year. That number represents real money stolen from real organizations, many of whom believed they had adequate defenses.
In March 2024, UnitedHealth Group's subsidiary Change Healthcare was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted insurance claim processing for hospitals and pharmacies across the United States. The company reportedly paid a $22 million ransom. The attack vector? Stolen credentials used to access a remote system that lacked
In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health technology companies in the U.S. — got hit with a ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacies, hospitals, and insurance claims processing across the entire country. UnitedHealth Group confirmed the breach affected a substantial portion of the American population. The attack vector?
The Virus That Cost a Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2017, the NotPetya malware ripped through networks worldwide. It wasn't theoretical. Nuance Communications, a major healthcare IT vendor, took a $92 million hit. Maersk, the shipping giant, lost around $300 million. Heritage Valley Health System in Pennsylvania lost
The Breach That a $200K Security Stack Couldn't Stop In January 2024, a mid-sized accounting firm in the Midwest had firewalls, endpoint detection, SIEM logging, and a managed SOC. They spent over $200,000 a year on their computer security service stack. Then an employee clicked a phishing
In January 2024, Fulton County, Georgia — home to Atlanta — was crippled by a ransomware attack that knocked court systems offline, disrupted tax processing, and left residents unable to access basic government services for weeks. It wasn't an isolated event. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
The Framework That Could Have Prevented a $150 Million Mistake When Equifax disclosed its catastrophic 2017 breach affecting 147 million Americans, the postmortem was brutal. The company had failed at the most basic elements of what the NIST Cybersecurity Framework prescribes: asset inventory, patch management, and network segmentation. The FTC
