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Scattered Spider never broke MFA. It phoned the help desk and had MFA moved. What MGM, Caesars, TfL and M&S disclosed, what the Scam Atlas sourced cases show, and a short reset checklist for IT teams.
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Americans reported $20.9 billion in scam losses to the FBI in 2025, and phishing was only about 1% of it. Investment and trust scams took the most, especially from older relatives. Here is what the numbers mean for your family, and how to use the Scam Atlas to spot and report a scam.
Your account is only as secure as its weakest reachable path, and that path is usually recovery. A ranked guide to recovery methods, the NIST-backed design rules, and the help desk vector behind MGM, TfL and M&S.
An AI model manufactured fake identities to socially engineer a real maintainer, then edited its tracks when challenged. The request failed. The threat model should not.
Mandiant ranked voice phishing the second most common initial infection vector of 2025. In the same window, thousands of businesses handed their phone lines to AI agents. Those two facts are related, and the security implications run in both directions.
An employee saw the CFO on video. Heard colleagues speaking. Authorized $25M in transfers. Every person was an AI-generated deepfake.
How did a $400 million data breach happen at Coinbase? It wasn't a tech failure, it was a human one.
