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The Virus That Cost a Hospital $65 Million In 2017, the WannaCry ransomware tore through the UK's National Health Service, locking down systems at over 80 organizations and forcing hospitals to divert ambulances. The estimated cost exceeded £92 million. The root cause? Unpatched Windows machines running a known
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor social-engineered a help desk employee with a ten-minute phone call. The attacker didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They exploited a gap in employee policy — specifically, the identity verification process for password resets. A strong cybersecurity
Your Home Office Is Now the Attack Surface In 2023, a single remote employee at MGM Resorts answered a social engineering call from a threat actor impersonating IT support. That one interaction led to a ransomware attack that cost the company over $100 million in losses. The attacker didn'
Your Employees' Credentials Are Already for Sale In March 2024, AT&T confirmed that data from approximately 73 million current and former customers appeared on the dark web. That breach didn't happen overnight — the data had been circulating in underground markets for years before anyone noticed.
3,389 Reasons to Worry About Your Open RDP Ports In 2023, the FBI's IC3 received over 880,000 cybercrime complaints with losses exceeding $12.5 billion — and a staggering number of those incidents traced back to compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections. I've personally responded
The Breach That Started With a Single Click In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called Scattered Spider social-engineered an IT help desk employee. One phone call. One credential reset. That's all it took to bring a $14 billion company to its
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 June 2024, researchers at SpyCloud reported that over 17.3 billion credentials were circulating on underground marketplaces. That's not a theoretical number from a think tank. That's the real inventory of stolen credentials on the dark web — usernames, passwords, session tokens, and API keys — available
A Single Click Cost One Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2024, Change Healthcare — the payment processing backbone of the U.S. healthcare system — was crippled by a ransomware attack attributed to the ALPHV/BlackCat group. UnitedHealth Group, its parent company, disclosed the incident would cost over $870 million in direct
A Single Email That Cost $100 Million In 2019, Toyota Boshoku Corporation lost $37 million after an employee followed wire transfer instructions in a fraudulent email. Facebook and Google collectively lost over $100 million to a Lithuanian threat actor who sent fake invoices posing as a hardware vendor. These aren&
