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A survey from Agari revealed how cybercriminals exploit compromised accounts and stolen credentials. Around 50% of compromised accounts in phishing attacks are accessed within 12 hours.
Agari researchers entered unique credentials belonging to fake personas into phishing sites posing as widely used enterprise applications, and waited to see what the phishers would do next with the compromised accounts.
Almost two-thirds of all phished credentials are verified by attackers within a day and then used in a variety of schemes, including business email compromise and targeting other users with malicious code.
Agari has decided to carry out an experiment to better understand how these actors move, so they seeded over 8,000 phishing sites with credentials under its control to see what they do.
MINNEAPOLIS (March 18, 2021)— Core Security, a Fortra Company, today announced the results of its annual penetration testing survey, with 85 percent of cybersecurity respondents reporting they pen test at least once per year. This finding is part of the more extensive 2021 Penetration Testing Report, which reveals that pen testing plays an essential role within organizations as part of a robust...