Learn how attackers use psychological manipulation to trick people into revealing sensitive information or performing unsafe actions. Topics include pretexting, baiting, tailgating, vishing, and real-world social engineering case studies that expose common human vulnerabilities.
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One Click Cost This Company Everything In March 2022, a single employee at Nvidia clicked something they shouldn't have. The Lapsus$ threat actor group walked away with over a terabyte of proprietary data, including employee credentials and source code. Nvidia isn't a small shop with weak
Last October, while organizations across the country were hanging "Think Before You Click" posters in their break rooms, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center was logging over 847,000 complaints representing nearly $7 billion in losses for 2021. That's roughly a 7% increase in
A $4.24 Million Problem That a Browser Tab Could Fix In 2021, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average cost of a breach at $4.24 million — the highest in 17 years. Here's the part that should keep you up at
In March 2021, a business email compromise attack tricked an employee at a Scottish charity into wiring £173,000 to a threat actor posing as a construction firm. The employee wasn't careless. They weren't stupid. They simply hadn't been trained to spot the signs.
In February 2022, the FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory warning that ransomware incidents against 14 of 16 U.S. critical infrastructure sectors had increased dramatically. That advisory wasn't theoretical — it followed real attacks against water treatment facilities, hospitals, and food processors. If you're searching
In January 2022, the International Committee of the Red Cross disclosed that a sophisticated cyberattack compromised the personal data of more than 515,000 vulnerable people — including missing persons, detainees, and their families. The breach didn't happen because of some exotic zero-day exploit. It happened because of a
The Breach That Cost a Pipeline Its Entire Operation In May 2021, Colonial Pipeline — the largest fuel pipeline in the United States — shut down completely after a ransomware attack. A single compromised password on a legacy VPN account gave the DarkSide threat actor group everything they needed. The company paid
In 2020, a Tesla employee was offered $1 million by a Russian threat actor to plant malware on the company's network. The employee reported it to the FBI instead, and the conspirator was arrested. That's the version of the story where everything goes right. Most insider
One Cost the Company $3.4 Billion. The Other Just Forgot to Lock the Door. In 2020, a former Ubiquiti employee launched a devastating attack against his own employer — stealing proprietary data, attempting extortion, and then posing as a whistleblower to tank the company's stock. That's
The Blackbaud Breach Should Have Been a Wake-Up Call In May 2020, a ransomware attack hit Blackbaud — one of the largest cloud computing providers serving nonprofits, hospitals, and universities. The breach exposed donor records, financial data, and Social Security numbers belonging to millions of people across hundreds of organizations. Blackbaud
