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In March 2022, Okta confirmed that the Lapsus$ threat actor group had compromised a support engineer's laptop and accessed internal systems for five days before detection. Five days. That's an eternity when an attacker has a foothold inside your environment. The breach highlighted a brutal truth:
In March 2022, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report team released preliminary findings showing that 82% of breaches involved the human element — phishing, stolen credentials, and social engineering. Meanwhile, most organizations I work with still treat NIST standards like a dusty compliance checkbox rather than what they actually are: a
The 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report landed last month, and one number should keep every business owner awake at night: 82% of breaches involved the human element. Phishing, stolen credentials, pretexting, human error — threat actors aren't picking locks. They're asking your employees to hold the
In March 2022, Okta confirmed that the Lapsus$ threat actor group had compromised a support engineer's account — and the initial access vector was social engineering. One employee, one credential, and suddenly a company trusted by thousands of organizations was in the headlines. If you think phishing only targets
The 82% Problem Nobody Wants to Own The 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 82% of breaches involved a human element — phishing, stolen credentials, misuse, or simple error. That number has barely budged in years. And yet most organizations still treat cybersecurity awareness training as a checkbox exercise:
In March 2022, Lapsus$ — a threat actor group largely composed of teenagers — breached Microsoft, Nvidia, Samsung, and Okta. They didn't use sophisticated zero-day exploits. They used social engineering. They bought credentials. They tricked employees. And they walked through the front door of some of the most well-resourced security
In 2020, a 10-person insurance agency in Oregon lost $285,000 in a single business email compromise attack. The threat actor spoofed the owner's email address, sent a wire transfer request to the bookkeeper, and the money was gone in 47 minutes. No malware. No Hollywood hacking. Just
The Colonial Pipeline Attack Changed Everything In May 2021, a single compromised password shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. Colonial Pipeline paid DarkSide operators $4.4 million in Bitcoin — and even after paying, it took days to restore operations. Fuel shortages hit the East Coast. Panic
Colonial Pipeline Taught Us What Happens Without a Plan In May 2021, Colonial Pipeline paid $4.4 million in ransom after a single compromised password shut down fuel delivery across the Eastern United States. The company had backups. They had resources. They still paid — because their ransomware recovery steps weren&
In May 2021, Colonial Pipeline paid $4.4 million in ransom after a single compromised password shut down fuel delivery across the Eastern United States. Months later, meat processor JBS paid $11 million to resume operations. If you searched for ransomware examples hoping to understand what these attacks actually look
