With thousands of stolen account details available for sale on the web, cyber criminals are turning to new methods using them efficiently to try to break into accounts. According to a new report by risk analysis specialist Digital Shadows, 'credential stuffing' tools are the latest technique being used to automate attempts at account takeover. Credential stuffing -- not as you might think the latest alternative to sage and onion -- is a type of brute force attack where large sets of credentials can be automatically inserted into login pages until a match with an existing account is found. The most…
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