Security News > 2021 > September > How to Prevent Account Takeovers in 2021

Some perpetrators hire cheap human labor, for staging larger scale account takeover attacks.

Hacker intervention can occasionally circumvent standard authentication measures for blocking account takeover fraud.

There's no single "Magic bullet" to remedy the issues of credential stuffing and account takeover.

The zero-trust framework requires all account holders or users of a platform to undergo authentication, authorization, and continuous validation before gaining access to applications and data.

Credential-stuffing attacks, utilizing user names/passwords extracted from unconnected data breaches, are one of the most common account takeover mechanisms.

Adding a requirement for appropriate and independently verified additional factors to gain access to your servers will make your business dramatically less likely to suffer account takeover attacks.

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https://threatpost.com/protect-account-takeover-cyberattacks/175090/