Reimagining Cyber · 2026-06-23 · 13 min
Every week brings another breach headline. A retailer is compromised. An airline suffers a cyberattack. A ransomware gang claims another victim. A cryptocurrency company loses sensitive data. The victims change, the industries change, and the attackers sometimes change - but many of today's most significant breaches follow a remarkably similar pattern. In this episode of Reimagining Cyber , Tyler Moffitt breaks down the common attack chain behind modern cyberattacks and explains why threat actors continue to rely on the same core tactics year after year. From phishing, social engineering, and credential theft to identity compromise, privilege escalation, data access, and extortion, the conversation explores the techniques that repeatedly appear across major incidents. The episode examines why identity has become the primary target for attackers, how groups such as Scattered Spider have demonstrated the power of identity-based attacks, and why data theft and extortion are increasingly replacing traditional ransomware operations. Rather than focusing on the company named in the latest headline, security leaders and practitioners should focus on the attack path itself.
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