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In January 2023, the FBI and international law enforcement took down the Hive ransomware group's dark web infrastructure, seizing servers that had processed over $100 million in ransom payments from hospitals, school districts, and financial firms. That operation gave the public a rare, concrete look at what the
In January 2023, Norton LifeLock disclosed that attackers used credential stuffing to compromise roughly 6,450 customer accounts. The passwords didn't come from a Norton breach. They came from stolen credentials dark web marketplaces had been selling for months — maybe years. The attackers simply bought username-password combos from
23 Billion Stolen Credentials Are Already For Sale In January 2023, cybersecurity researchers at Digital Shadows reported over 24.6 billion stolen username-and-password pairs circulating on dark web marketplaces. That's roughly three credentials for every person on Earth. And every single one of them is a loaded weapon
In March 2023, the FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory warning that threat actors were actively using brute force techniques to compromise healthcare and public health sector organizations. These weren't sophisticated zero-day exploits. They were automated scripts guessing passwords — millions of combinations per minute — until one worked.
The Breach That Started With a Single W-2 In early 2023, the IRS warned — again — about a surge in W-2 phishing scams targeting businesses. A threat actor sends one convincing email to someone in payroll. That person exports employee tax records. Within hours, fraudulent tax returns are filed under dozens
In February 2023, the U.S. Marshals Service confirmed a major ransomware attack that compromised sensitive law enforcement data — including personally identifiable information and internal legal documents. A federal agency with dedicated security staff and government-grade infrastructure still got hit. If you're running a business without those resources,
In 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 800,000 complaints with losses exceeding $10.3 billion — and malware was the engine behind a staggering number of those incidents. I've spent years watching organizations get blindsided not because they lacked firewalls, but because
In September 2022, Uber disclosed a breach that started with a single employee accepting a multi-factor authentication push notification they shouldn't have. The threat actor behind it — linked to the Lapsus$ group — had already compromised the employee's credentials. But the initial foothold? Social engineering and malware
British Airways Lost $230 Million Because of a Script In 2018, British Airways disclosed a breach that exposed the payment card details of roughly 380,000 customers. The attack vector? A malicious script injected into the airline's payment page — a textbook cross-site scripting exploitation. The UK's
In October 2022, a Medibank employee's credentials were stolen through a single compromised login — no multi-factor authentication in place. The breach exposed the personal health data of 9.7 million Australians and became one of the most damaging incidents of the year. The attack didn't start
