You Weren’t Breached by a Hacker—You Were Breached by Apathy

There was no zero-day exploit. No nation-state attacker. No headline-grabbing malware strain. Just a phishing email. Caught by the SOC. Flagged in the queue. Ignored by an analyst who didn’t bother to dig deeper. The ransomware that followed took less than 48 hours to bring the company to its knees.