Tag: #CredentialTheft
Conventional Phishing attacks involved tricking potential victims to enter their respective usernames and passwords on fake websites which resembled the genuine websites. Once the login credentials were captured, they were used to steal business as well as personal data. A new trend that has emerged is to trick users into downloading malware that once downloaded […]
Cyberattacks are no longer driven mainly by software vulnerabilities. They are increasingly driven by identity compromise. According to Sophos, identity-based attacks now account for a majority of incident response cases, with attackers using valid credentials in many breaches. In fact, in over 56% of cases, attackers logged in rather than broke in. At the same […]
Cybersecurity has always been a step ahead game. Defenders build controls, attackers find gaps, and the cycle continues. But something changed over the last couple of years. The rules of that game are no longer the same. Organizations spent years strengthening firewalls, patching vulnerabilities, and deploying endpoint protection. Yet, despite these investments, breaches are not […]