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In March 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $6.9 billion to cybercrime in 2021 — a 64% increase from the year before. A staggering number of those victims weren't Fortune 500 companies. They were regular people, sitting at home computers,
The Colonial Pipeline Fallout Changed Everything About How We Buy Security One year ago, a single compromised password shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. Colonial Pipeline paid $4.4 million in ransom. Gas stations across the Southeast ran dry. And the FBI later confirmed that the
In April 2022, researchers at Palo Alto Unit 42 reported that nearly 99% of cloud user accounts, services, and resources grant excessive permissions — permissions that are granted but never used. That gap between what's allowed and what's needed is exactly where threat actors operate. If you&
485,000 Unfilled Cybersecurity Jobs — And Counting CyberSeek's latest data shows roughly 714,548 cybersecurity job openings in the United States as of early 2022, with only about 1.1 million people employed in the field. That gap is enormous. If you're researching an online computer
In April 2022, researchers at Wiz discovered that Microsoft Azure's PostgreSQL Flexible Server had vulnerabilities allowing cross-account database access. They called it ExtraReplica, and it affected thousands of Azure databases. This wasn't a theoretical exercise — it was a real demonstration that security in cloud computing remains
A Single Email Cost This Company $121 Million In 2019, a Lithuanian man was sentenced to five years in prison for phishing Google and Facebook out of over $121 million. His method wasn't a zero-day exploit or cutting-edge malware. It was emails. Carefully crafted, psychologically precise emails that
In March 2022, Okta confirmed that the Lapsus$ 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
In March 2022, Okta confirmed that the Lapsus$ threat actor group had compromised a support engineer's laptop — and the initial access vector was social engineering. A single employee interaction opened the door to a breach that rattled hundreds of downstream customers. If you're asking what is
A Single Click Cost One County $1.3 Million In March 2022, Bernalillo County, New Mexico was still recovering from a ransomware attack that started with what investigators believe was a phishing email. The county had to close government buildings, delay jail proceedings, and shut down key services. The remediation
The Phishing Email That Cost Ubiquiti $46.7 Million In 2015, networking giant Ubiquiti Networks disclosed that attackers used carefully crafted phishing emails to trick finance department employees into wiring $46.7 million to overseas accounts controlled by threat actors. The emails impersonated executives. They looked legitimate. And trained professionals
