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The Breach That Started With a Single Browser Extension In early 2024, a data breach at a mid-size healthcare firm started not with some sophisticated zero-day exploit, but with a Chrome extension an employee installed to manage their tabs. That extension harvested saved passwords, session cookies, and browser history. Within
The Breach That Changed How I Think About Cyber Security In February 2024, Change Healthcare suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted insurance claims processing for nearly every hospital and pharmacy in the United States. UnitedHealth Group later confirmed the breach affected approximately 100 million individuals — making it the largest healthcare
A 3-Minute Email Cost One Company $37 Million In 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm joined a deepfake video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call was AI-generated. The employee transferred $25.6 million (approximately HK$
In February 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that cybercrime losses in 2024 exceeded $16 billion — a staggering jump from the $12.5 billion reported the year before. That number landed like a gut punch across the security community, but honestly, none of us were surprised.
The Breach That Started With a Single Password In January 2024, Microsoft disclosed that a Russian threat actor group known as Midnight Blizzard accessed corporate email accounts — including those of senior leadership — using nothing more than a password spray attack against a legacy test account that lacked multi-factor authentication. No
In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the United States — was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacy operations, delayed patient care, and potentially exposed the protected health information of tens of millions of Americans. The root cause? Compromised credentials on a remote
The Breach That Started With a Single Reused Password In January 2024, Microsoft disclosed that a Russian state-sponsored threat actor — Midnight Blizzard — breached executive email accounts using a password spray attack against a legacy test account that lacked multi-factor authentication. Microsoft. One of the largest technology companies on Earth. Compromised
In March 2022, Okta confirmed that the Lapsus$ threat actor group had breached a third-party support contractor, potentially affecting hundreds of enterprise customers. A few weeks later, the same group hit Microsoft, Nvidia, and Samsung. These weren't obscure targets — they were companies with massive cyber security budgets, sophisticated
In March 2022, Okta confirmed that the Lapsus$ threat actor group had accessed an internal support engineer's laptop, potentially affecting hundreds of downstream customers. A few weeks before that, the same group hit Nvidia, Samsung, and Microsoft. These weren't obscure targets. These were companies with massive
The Federal Agency Most Hackers Wish You'd Ignore In May 2021, Colonial Pipeline paid $4.4 million in ransom after a single compromised password shut down fuel delivery across the Eastern Seaboard. Within days, CISA — the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — issued an advisory with specific defensive measures
