Security News > 2024 > January > Credentials are Still King: Leaked Credentials, Data Breaches and Dark Web Markets

Leaked credentials from traditional sources are still a prominent and substantial risk to organizations.

We monitor more than 14 billion leaked credentials found from dumps across the dark web.

Tier 1 leaked credentials result from a third-party application/service breaches, and all of the users of that service having their passwords compromised and distributed in a data dump on the dark web.

Attackers breach Scatterholt and access the identity and access management system, then they steal these credentials and leak them onto the dark web.

These credentials usually come from previous known breaches, or stealer logs, or sometimes totally made up; the original source is never totally clear, but the sheer amount of credentials one can acquire through combolists combined with frequent password reuse on the user's part still makes them a considerable attack vector.

Flare monitors more than 14 billion leaked credentials distributed on the dark web and hundreds of millions leaked through infostealer malware.

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