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The Word Everyone Uses But Few Can Explain In March 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its 2023 annual report showing $12.5 billion in reported cybercrime losses — a 22% jump from the year before. Politicians, news anchors, and boardroom executives all toss around the
In January 2024, a finance employee at engineering firm Arup wired $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call that impersonated the company's CFO. That attack didn't start with a mass spam blast. It started with a carefully researched, individually targeted spear phishing email.
In February 2024, the FBI warned that threat actors stole over $10 billion through internet-enabled fraud in 2023 — and SMS-based phishing, commonly called smishing, was one of the fastest-growing attack vectors cited in the FBI IC3 annual report. If you think smishing is just a nuisance text from a fake
In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call convinced him his CFO had authorized the transfer. The employee had doubts. He hesitated. But the faces on screen looked real, the voices sounded right, and
In January 2024, Microsoft disclosed that the Russian threat actor group Midnight Blizzard had breached corporate email accounts — not through some exotic zero-day exploit, but through a password spray attack on a legacy test account that lacked multi-factor authentication. One of the most well-resourced technology companies on the planet got
MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million from a single ransomware attack in September 2023. The entry point? A social engineering call to the help desk that lasted about ten minutes. That's all it took for the Scattered Spider threat actor group to cripple slot machines, hotel check-in
In January 2024, Microsoft disclosed that a Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Midnight Blizzard had breached executive email accounts — not through some exotic zero-day exploit, but through a simple password spray attack on a legacy test account that lacked multi-factor authentication. If Microsoft can get caught flat-footed, your organization
When MGM Resorts got hit in September 2023, the chaos lasted ten days. Hotel room keys stopped working. Slot machines went dark. Reservation systems crashed. The estimated cost topped $100 million. And here's the part that stings — the initial compromise reportedly started with a social engineering call to
In September 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a social engineering attack compromised its systems. But the financial damage from the breach itself was only part of the story. The chaos that followed — delayed notifications, regulatory scrutiny, class-action lawsuits — showed exactly what happens when an organization fumbles
The Cost of a Data Breach Is Already Staggering — 2026 Will Be Worse In 2023, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average at $4.45 million per incident. By the time the 2024 numbers settle, every indicator suggests that figure will climb again. If
