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A Single Click Cost One Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2024, Change Healthcare — the largest health payment processing company in the U.S. — was hit by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang. The attack disrupted claims processing for thousands of providers nationwide. UnitedHealth Group, Change Healthcare's parent company, disclosed
In 2024, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to the help desk. The threat actor didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability or deploy some exotic malware. They impersonated an employee. That's it. And it
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 880,000 complaints with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion — a 22% increase from the year before. A massive chunk of those losses traced back to malware infections that could have been stopped with basic hygiene. If
The Click That Cost One Company $47 Million In 2023, MGM Resorts was brought to its knees — not by a sophisticated zero-day exploit, but by a social engineering phone call that led to credential theft and a devastating ransomware attack. The estimated cost exceeded $100 million. The attack vector? A
A Single Unpatched Laptop Cost One Hospital $3 Million In 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services settled with a healthcare provider after a ransomware attack that started on one employee's unpatched workstation. The machine hadn't been updated in over 90 days. That
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 a help desk employee. One phone call. One manipulated employee. That's all it took to bring a multi-billion-dollar company to its knees. The
The FBI Warned You About Medusa. Did You Listen? In March 2025, the FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory — #StopRansomware: Medusa Ransomware — warning that the Medusa ransomware gang had already hit over 300 organizations across critical infrastructure sectors. Healthcare, education, manufacturing, technology. The common thread? Nearly every intrusion started
160 Billion Spam Emails a Day — and Your Inbox Isn't Immune In 2024, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed what security professionals have been saying for years: email remains the primary initial access vector for data breaches. Over 90% of cyberattacks start with some form of malicious
A Single Phishing Email Cost One Company $60 Million In early 2025, Orion SA, a Luxembourg-based metals company, disclosed that a business email compromise (BEC) phishing attack had tricked employees into wiring approximately $60 million to attacker-controlled accounts. That's not a typo. One phishing campaign. Sixty million dollars.
The Virus That Cost a Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2017, the NotPetya wiper malware tore through networks worldwide in under 24 hours. Heritage Valley Health System lost access to its entire network — radiology, cardiology, even surgical systems went dark. Across the globe, Maersk lost nearly $300 million. Merck reported
