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The Breach That Started With One Reused Password In 2023, a single employee at Norton LifeLock's parent company, Gen Digital, reused a personal password across multiple accounts. Attackers used credential stuffing to compromise nearly 925,000 customer accounts. One password. Nearly a million victims. If you've
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a social engineering attack opened the door to ransomware that crippled casino floors, hotel check-ins, and digital room keys for days. The attackers didn't use some exotic, never-before-seen weapon. They used well-known types of malware — the same categories
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 single social engineering phone call that led to credential theft. The resulting breach caused an estimated $100 million in damages. And it started with
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'
That "Unsubscribe" Click Just Cost Someone Their Entire Network Last year, I worked with a mid-size logistics company that lost access to every file server, customer database, and email system they had. The entry point? A single spam email disguised as a shipping notification. One employee clicked an
A Single Stolen Password Cost One Company $60 Million In 2023, MGM Resorts got hit by a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to the help desk. The threat actors impersonated an employee, reset credentials, and within hours had enough access to deploy ransomware across the
A Single Email Cost This Company $121 Million In 2019, a Lithuanian national named Evaldas Rimasauskas pleaded guilty to stealing over $121 million from Google and Facebook. His weapon wasn't malware. It wasn't a zero-day exploit. It was phishing — forged emails impersonating a legitimate hardware vendor,
What a Phish Setlist Actually Means for Your Security Team When the band Phish takes the stage, they never play the same setlist twice. Every show is crafted for the audience. Your phishing simulation program should work the same way. A phish setlist — a curated, rotating collection of phishing attack
A 45-Minute Quiz Stopped a $3 Million Wire Fraud In 2023, a mid-size logistics company in Ohio avoided a devastating business email compromise attack — not because of their firewall, not because of their SOC team, but because an accounts payable clerk recognized a spoofed domain. She'd seen the
In January 2024, a threat actor used stolen credentials to compromise a Microsoft executive's email account — no malware, no zero-day exploit, just a password spray attack against a legacy test tenant that lacked multi-factor authentication. Microsoft disclosed the breach publicly, and it became one of the most talked-about
