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A $100,000 Ransom Demand Starts With One Email In early 2024, the FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory warning that the Medusa ransomware gang had compromised over 300 organizations across critical infrastructure sectors since June 2021. The attack chain almost always starts the same way: phishing campaigns targeting
In January 2024, a finance employee at engineering firm Arup wired $25 million to criminals after a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO. Every person on that call was a deepfake. The attack started the same way almost all of them do — with a
3.4 Billion Spam Emails Hit Inboxes Every Single Day That number comes straight from cybersecurity researchers tracking global email traffic, and it should stop you cold. Spam email isn't the mild nuisance it was in 2005 — today it's the primary delivery vehicle for ransomware, credential
In February 2024, a misconfigured system at Change Healthcare led to one of the most devastating ransomware attacks in U.S. healthcare history. The ALPHV/BlackCat group exploited a Citrix remote access portal that lacked multi-factor authentication — a basic security for system control that should have been in place years
One Email Cost This Company $100 Million In 2019, Toyota Boshoku Corporation — a major Toyota parts supplier — lost $37 million after an employee wired funds to a fraudster posing as a legitimate business partner. That same year, Nikkei's American subsidiary lost $29 million to a nearly identical scheme.
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25.6 million to threat actors after joining a video call where every other participant — including the company's CFO — was a deepfake. The attackers had spent weeks studying publicly available video of those executives,
The Phone Call That Cost One Company $25 Million In early 2024, an employee at British engineering firm Arup joined a video call with what appeared to be the company's chief financial officer and several colleagues. Every face on the screen was a deepfake. The employee, convinced by
The $4.88 Million Lesson Your Employees Haven't Learned Yet In January 2024, the SEC's own X (formerly Twitter) account was hijacked because someone fell for a SIM-swap attack. If the agency that regulates public companies can't keep its own accounts secure, what does
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong transferred $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call convinced him his CFO had authorized the payment. No malware. No zero-day exploit. Just a well-trained employee who wasn't trained well enough. That incident
In January 2024, Microsoft disclosed that a Russian threat actor group — Midnight Blizzard — had breached executive email accounts using a simple password spray attack against a legacy test account that lacked multi-factor authentication. One of the most technically sophisticated companies on the planet, compromised by one of the oldest tricks
