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A Ransomware Gang That Starts With Your Inbox In 2022, the Medusa ransomware gang emerged as one of the most aggressive threat actors targeting organizations through phishing campaigns. They don't kick down the front door — they walk through it with stolen credentials, harvested from carefully crafted phishing emails
The Breach That Should Have Changed Everything In March 2022, the Lapsus$ group breached Okta, Microsoft, Samsung, and Nvidia in rapid succession — not by deploying sophisticated zero-day exploits, but by buying stolen credentials, social engineering help desk employees, and exploiting MFA fatigue. A group reportedly led by teenagers embarrassed some
In March 2022, Okta confirmed that the Lapsus$ threat actor group had breached a third-party support engineer's laptop and accessed internal systems. The attack didn't exploit some exotic zero-day vulnerability. It started with compromised credentials — a single point of failure in what should have been a
The Virus That Cost One Hospital Chain $67 Million In 2017, the NotPetya attack crippled organizations worldwide. Heritage Valley Health System in Pennsylvania lost access to its entire network. Surgeries were delayed. Patient records vanished. The total global damage from NotPetya exceeded $10 billion, according to the White House. And
The Colonial Pipeline Fallout Changed Everything About How We Buy Security One year ago, a single compromised password shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. Colonial Pipeline paid $4.4 million in ransom. Gas stations across the Southeast ran dry. And the FBI later confirmed that the
$4.24 Million Per Breach — and the Trajectory Is Ugly IBM's 2021 Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average at $4.24 million per incident — the highest in 17 years of the study. That figure jumped 10% from the prior year. If you're
When Colonial Pipeline's CEO Joseph Blount testified before the Senate in June 2021, he admitted the company paid $4.4 million in ransom after a single compromised password shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. No multi-factor authentication. No segmentation between IT and operational technology.
In July 2021, the REvil ransomware gang exploited a vulnerability in Kaseya's VSA software and dropped a trojan payload onto the systems of roughly 1,500 businesses worldwide. The attack didn't arrive as an obvious virus. It masqueraded as a legitimate software update — the textbook definition
The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in May 2021 shut down fuel delivery across the U.S. East Coast for nearly a week. Gas stations ran dry. Panic buying erupted. A single compromised password — reportedly linked to an inactive VPN account without multi-factor authentication — brought critical infrastructure to its knees. If
The Colonial Pipeline Just Proved Your Security Needs Security On May 7, 2021, a single compromised password shut down 5,500 miles of fuel pipeline. Colonial Pipeline paid a $4.4 million ransom within hours. The attack didn't exploit some exotic zero-day. It walked through a legacy VPN
