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The Breach That Changed How I Think About Cyber Security In January 2024, Microsoft disclosed that Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard had been lurking inside their corporate email systems since November 2023. Not a small startup. Not a company that skimps on security budgets. Microsoft. If their cyber security defenses
In February 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $12.5 billion to cybercrime in 2023 — a 22% increase from the year before. A staggering number of those complaints originated from personal devices. Not corporate servers. Not government networks. Home computers. So how
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 880,000 complaints with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion — a nearly 22% increase in losses over the previous year. A staggering share of those complaints came from small and midsize businesses. I've spent years helping
In January 2024, Microsoft disclosed that a Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Midnight Blizzard had breached executive email accounts — not through some exotic zero-day exploit, but through a simple password spray attack on a legacy test account that lacked multi-factor authentication. If Microsoft can get caught flat-footed, your organization
The Breach That Cost MGM Resorts Over $100 Million In September 2023, a threat actor called Scattered Spider brought MGM Resorts to its knees — not with some exotic zero-day exploit, but with a phone call. A social engineering attack against the company's IT help desk gave attackers the
The Cost of a Data Breach Is Already Staggering — 2026 Will Be Worse In 2023, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average at $4.45 million per incident. By the time the 2024 numbers settle, every indicator suggests that figure will climb again. If
Your Remote Workforce Is Your Largest Attack Surface In March 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported that losses from cybercrime exceeded $10.3 billion in 2022 — a 49% increase from the year before. A massive chunk of those losses traced back to compromised remote workers.
The Industry That Gets Hit Hardest — and Most Often In January 2023, ION Trading Technologies — a critical software vendor serving derivatives traders worldwide — got hit with a LockBit ransomware attack that forced dozens of financial institutions back to manual trade processing. For days. In one of the most automated industries
In July 2023, a ransomware attack crippled the nonprofit hospital chain CommonSpirit Health, ultimately affecting over 600,000 patients and costing the organization an estimated $160 million. That's not a Fortune 500 company. That's a mission-driven organization built to serve communities — brought to its knees because
In March 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $10.3 billion to cybercrime in 2022 — a 49% increase from the year before. The uncomfortable truth? Most of those losses trace back to failures in basic security practices, not sophisticated zero-day exploits. A
