Learn about the individuals and groups behind cyberattacks, including nation-state hackers, cybercriminal organizations, hacktivists, and insider threats. These articles analyze motivations, tactics, and real-world examples to help you understand who poses risks to your digital assets.
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A Single Click Cost One Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2020, Universal Health Services — a Fortune 500 hospital operator — got hit by the Ryuk ransomware strain. The result: 400 facilities knocked offline, staff reverting to pen and paper, and an estimated $67 million in direct costs plus ongoing damages that
The Ransomware Gang That Treats Phishing Like a Business In March 2025, CISA and the FBI issued a joint advisory — AA25-071A — warning that the Medusa ransomware gang had compromised over 300 organizations across critical infrastructure sectors. Healthcare, education, legal, insurance, manufacturing. The attack vector in the vast majority of cases?
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor socially engineered an IT help desk employee with a single phone call. That one incident tells you more about what cybersecurity actually is — and isn't — than any textbook ever could. If you've ever
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 880,000 complaints with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion — a 22% increase from the previous year. A staggering number of those incidents involved some form of malicious software. Understanding the types of malware your organization faces isn&
A Single Email Cost One Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2024, Change Healthcare — a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group — suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacy operations, insurance claims, and patient care across the United States. The company paid a $22 million ransom. Total damages exceeded $100 million. The initial entry
The FBI Told You About Medusa. Are You Listening? In March 2025, the FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory — AA25-071A — warning that the Medusa ransomware gang had compromised over 300 organizations across critical infrastructure sectors. Healthcare systems, school districts, legal firms, manufacturers. The common thread? Almost every intrusion started
Your Employees Are Eating Phish Food Every Day In March 2024, MGM Resorts was still tallying the damage from a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call. The estimated cost exceeded $100 million. The threat actor didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability or deploy some exotic
A Hospital Goes Dark in 90 Seconds In 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the United States — was hit by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. The attack disrupted pharmacy operations, delayed patient care, and exposed the protected health information of roughly 100 million individuals. UnitedHealth
A Single Spoofed Email Cost This Company $47 Million In 2024, the SEC disclosed that Ubiquiti Networks lost $46.7 million after attackers used a spoof of executive email accounts to trick the finance department into wiring funds to overseas accounts. The employees thought they were following orders from the
A $4.88 Million Question Most People Answer Wrong In 2024, the average cost of a data breach hit $4.88 million globally, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report. That number isn't abstract. It's real money drained from real organizations — many
