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In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a social engineering attack opened the door to ransomware that crippled casino floors, hotel check-ins, and digital room keys for days. The attackers didn't use some exotic, never-before-seen weapon. They used well-known types of malware — the same categories
3.5 Million Openings and Nobody to Fill Them Cybersecurity Ventures projected 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity positions globally by 2025, and we're still feeling that gap heading into 2026. Meanwhile, the FBI's IC3 received a record $12.5 billion in reported cybercrime losses in 2023
Your Employees' Credentials Are Already for Sale In March 2024, AT&T confirmed that data from approximately 73 million current and former customers appeared on the dark web. That breach didn't happen overnight — the data had been circulating in underground markets for years before anyone noticed.
Your Employees' Passwords Are Probably Already There In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported over 880,000 complaints with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion — and a significant chunk of that activity traces back to credentials and data bought and sold on the dark
In December 2020, cybersecurity firm FireEye disclosed that a threat actor had compromised SolarWinds' Orion software update mechanism, distributing malware to roughly 18,000 organizations — including the U.S. Treasury, the Department of Homeland Security, and Fortune 500 companies. The attackers didn't break down the front door.
In February 2024, a threat actor going by "USDoD" listed 2.9 billion records from National Public Data on a dark web forum — records that included Social Security numbers, full names, and addresses of nearly every American adult. The breach didn't make mainstream headlines until months
A Single Click Cost MGM Resorts $100 Million In September 2023, a threat actor called Scattered Spider used social engineering to trick an MGM Resorts help desk employee into resetting credentials. Within hours, they deployed malware across MGM's network — crippling hotel check-ins, slot machines, and digital room keys
A $12.5 Billion Problem Nobody Can Ignore The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported $12.5 billion in losses from cybercrime in 2023 — a 22% increase from the prior year. That number represents real money stolen from real organizations, many of whom believed they had adequate defenses.
In January 2023, the FBI and international law enforcement took down the Hive ransomware group's dark web infrastructure, seizing servers that had processed over $100 million in ransom payments from hospitals, school districts, and financial firms. That operation gave the public a rare, concrete look at what the
In 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 800,000 complaints with losses exceeding $10.3 billion — and malware was the engine behind a staggering number of those incidents. I've spent years watching organizations get blindsided not because they lacked firewalls, but because
