A Foster City distribution company: phishing attack shut down within 30 minutes
A Foster City distribution company with 15 employees relies on us for its security. One day, an employee fell for a phishing email. They realized what had happened and reported it to us right away.
Within 30 minutes, we:
- Confirmed a suspicious login on the employee’s account.
- Revoked the account’s active sessions and reset its credentials.
- Isolated the employee’s computer from the network.
- Checked for and cleared all unauthorized forwarding rules in the inbox.
- Started a security scan of the computer.
The result: no money or data was lost. Because the employee reported it quickly, no malicious emails went out from the account. A fast report and a fast response kept one bad click from costing the company anything. The scan took longer to finish, but the account was locked down and the computer was off the network within that first half hour.

