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Your Employees' Phones Are the Weakest Link In March 2024, MGM Resorts was still dealing with the fallout of a social engineering attack that started with a simple phone call. But here's what most people missed in the post-incident analysis: the reconnaissance that made that attack possible
The $4.88 Million Problem Sitting in Your Inbox Right Now In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — essentially sophisticated fake mail — cost victims over $2.9 billion in a single year. That wasn't a spike. It was a trend.
In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the United States — was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacy operations, delayed patient care, and ultimately cost UnitedHealth Group an estimated $872 million in the first quarter alone. The attack vector? Stolen credentials and the
The SEC Fired the Starting Gun — Most Boards Still Haven't Moved In late 2023, the SEC's new cybersecurity disclosure rules forced publicly traded companies to report material cyber incidents within four business days. Suddenly, board directors who had spent decades delegating "the tech stuff"
In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 859,000 complaints with losses exceeding $16.6 billion — a 33% increase from the year before. That number isn't slowing down in 2026. I've spent years watching organizations and individuals make the same preventable
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called the help desk, pretended to be an employee, and talked their way into a password reset. No malware. No zero-day exploit. Just a phone call and a convincing story. That single incident shut down slot machines,
In June 2024, researchers at SpyCloud reported that over 17.3 billion credentials were circulating on underground marketplaces. That's not a theoretical number from a think tank. That's the real inventory of stolen credentials on the dark web — usernames, passwords, session tokens, and API keys — available
The $350 Million Oversight Nobody Saw Coming When Verizon acquired Yahoo in 2017, two previously undisclosed breaches affecting all 3 billion Yahoo accounts forced a $350 million price reduction. That's what happens when cybersecurity due diligence fails at the highest level. The breaches had already happened. The data
Welcome to the Phish Tour: How a Single Email Becomes a Full-Blown Breach In March 2023, the FBI's IC3 received over 298,000 complaints related to phishing schemes — more than any other cybercrime category by a wide margin. That number has only climbed since. Yet most people still
In March 2024, a single phishing link in a spoofed Microsoft 365 email gave attackers access to the email accounts of several U.S. State Department employees. The link looked like a routine password-reset page. It wasn't. That one click led to weeks of unauthorized access before anyone
