Security News

Credential Stuffing Attacks Are Reaching DDoS Proportions
2018-09-24 10:12

Credential stuffing is a growing threat. It is not new, but for many companies it is treated as annoying background noise that can be absorbed by bandwidth, handled by access controls, and...

Some credential-stuffing botnets don't care about being noticed any more
2018-09-24 10:03

They just take a battering ram to the gates The bots spewing out malicious login attempts by the bucketload appear to have cranked it up a notch.…

How credential stuffing contributed to 8.3B malicious botnet logins in early 2018
2018-09-19 15:20

Malicious login attempts from bots increased by by almost 2 billion from April to May 2018. Here's who is at risk.

Phished credentials caused twice as many breaches than malware in the past year
2018-09-13 05:45

Personal device use for remote work poses the biggest security risk to organisations safeguarding their increasingly mobile and cloud-based IT environment, according to a new survey of 100...

Sextortion scum armed with leaked credentials are persistent pests
2018-09-10 11:29

If you're going to batter 8,497 folk with over 60,000 threats, odds are someone will crack Persistence pays off for crooks when it comes to sextortion-based phishing scams, research into its...

Uni credential-swiping hack campaign linked to Iranian government
2018-08-24 15:31

US firm Secureworks lifts lid on further targeting of academia US infosec firm Secureworks has uncovered a login credential-hoovering operation linked to Iran that targeted universities across a...

Retail and finance top the list of vulnerable industries, increasingly targeted with credential threat campaigns
2018-08-21 16:00

The finance, professional, and information sectors had the highest volume and most variety of malicious activity in Q2 2018, says Rapid7, and the manufacturing sector is steadily getting more and...

The Foundation of Cyber-Attacks: Credential Harvesting
2018-07-25 11:44

Recent reports of a newly detected Smoke Loader infection campaign and the re-emergence of Magecart-based cyber-attacks illustrate a common tactic used by cyber criminals and state-sponsored...

ThreatList: Sizing Up The Scourge of Credential-Stuffing
2018-07-19 20:53

Over two billion credentials were stolen in 2017 and contributed to the complex problem of credential spills, credential stuffing and account takeover fraud.

Inside look at lifecycle of stolen credentials and extent of data breach damage
2018-07-19 11:45

Shape Security released its Credential Spill Report, shedding light on the extent to which the consumer banking, retail, airline and hospitality industries are impacted by credential stuffing...