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In January 2024, a finance employee at engineering firm Arup wired $25 million to criminals after joining a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call was a deepfake. The attack started the same way nearly all of
In March 2025, a mid-size accounting firm in Ohio wired $1.2 million to a threat actor who sent a single spoofed email — a fakeemail that perfectly mimicked the CEO's display name, writing style, and even included a forwarded thread from a real conversation. The email passed every
The Fake Invoice That Drained $1.4 Million In early 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — the category that includes PayPal phishing attacks — generated over $2.9 billion in adjusted losses in 2023 alone. That number hasn't slowed down. One
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
In March 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $12.5 billion to cybercrime in 2023 alone — and phone-based fraud, driven largely by spoofing caller techniques, remains one of the fastest-growing categories. I've watched organizations with solid email security get gutted
A Legitimate DocuSign Email That Steals Your PayPal Credentials In November 2024, Avanan researchers documented a wave of attacks where threat actors sent phishing emails through DocuSign's actual platform — not spoofed emails, but real DocuSign notifications. The documents inside impersonated PayPal invoices requesting payment authorization for hundreds or
A Single Phishing Attack Cost MGM Resorts $100 Million In September 2023, a threat actor called Scattered Spider impersonated an MGM Resorts employee during a help desk call. That single social engineering interaction led to a ransomware deployment that shut down slot machines, hotel key cards, and reservation systems across
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 Phishing Email That Cost One Company $60 Million In January 2024, a finance employee at the engineering firm Arup wired $25 million after attending a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and other colleagues. Every person on that call was a deepfake. That
When "Removed" Shows Up and You Start Googling You found an app, a service, or a browser extension labeled "Removed" — or maybe something you installed just vanished and now shows as "removed" in your app list. So you searched "removed is it legit.
