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In 2023, MGM Resorts lost roughly $100 million from a single social engineering phone call. A threat actor called the help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and within minutes had the credentials needed to deploy ransomware across the entire enterprise. That's not a firewall failure. That&
In January 2022, the Red Cross disclosed that a cyberattack compromised the personal data of over 515,000 vulnerable people — victims of conflict, missing persons, detainees. The attack vector? A threat actor exploiting an unpatched vulnerability, combined with social engineering techniques that went undetected for weeks. It's a
The Colonial Pipeline Hack Was a Wake-Up Call Nobody Should Have Needed On May 7, 2021, a single compromised password shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. Colonial Pipeline paid a $4.4 million ransom to the DarkSide threat actor group, and fuel shortages rippled across the
