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In 2023, MGM Resorts lost roughly $100 million after a social engineering attack bypassed every piece of computer security software they had deployed. The attackers didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They didn't brute-force a firewall. They called the help desk, impersonated an employee, and walked right
The FBI Gmail Alert That Changed the Threat Landscape In late 2024, the FBI issued a stark public service announcement: sophisticated phishing campaigns were actively targeting Gmail's 1.8 billion users, and the attacks were so convincing that even security-savvy professionals were falling for them. By 2025, the
A Single Click Cost MGM Resorts $100 Million In September 2023, a threat actor called Scattered Spider social-engineered an MGM Resorts help desk employee with a phone call. That single interaction — not a sophisticated zero-day exploit, not a nation-state supply chain attack — led to a ransomware incident that cost the
In March 2022, Okta confirmed that the Lapsus$ threat actor group had breached a third-party support contractor, potentially affecting hundreds of enterprise customers. A few weeks later, the same group hit Microsoft, Nvidia, and Samsung. These weren't obscure targets — they were companies with massive cyber security budgets, sophisticated
In May 2021, a single phishing email led to the shutdown of Colonial Pipeline — the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. The attackers used compromised credentials, likely harvested through a phishing campaign, to deploy ransomware that disrupted fuel supply across the entire East Coast. That one email triggered panic
The Colonial Pipeline Just Proved Your Software Isn't Enough On May 7, 2021, a single compromised password shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. Colonial Pipeline's systems went dark, gasoline shortages spread across the Southeast, and a ransomware gang called DarkSide walked away
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost roughly $100 million after a threat actor called a help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and talked their way past security controls. No zero-day exploit. No nation-state malware. Just a phone call. That incident crystallized something I've been telling organizations for
A Single Click That Cost $100 Million In 2023, MGM Resorts was brought to its knees — not by a sophisticated zero-day exploit, but by a phishing attack that started with a phone call to an IT help desk. Threat actors from the Scattered Spider group used social engineering to impersonate
The FBI Gmail Alert That Should Have Your Full Attention In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 298,000 phishing complaints — and Gmail accounts were among the most targeted. The FBI has repeatedly issued warnings about sophisticated phishing campaigns targeting Gmail users, including AI-generated
