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Credential stuffing is just the tip of the iceberg
2020-09-24 05:30

Credential stuffing attacks are taking up a lot of the oxygen in cybersecurity rooms these days.

Unlike automated flood-the-zone, volume-based credential attacks, other API attacks are conducted almost one-to-one and carried out in elusive ways, targeting the distinct vulnerabilities of each API, making them even harder to detect than attacks happening on a large scale.

Credential stuffing attacks are a key concern for good reason.

Credential stuffing attacks present security challenges of their own.

Enterprises can scale infrastructure to mitigate credential stuffing attacks or buy a solution capable of identifying and stopping the attacks.


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