Account Takeover
This is an attack whereby cybercriminals take ownership of accounts using stolen passwords and usernames
Cybercriminals generally purchase a list of credentials via the dark web – typically gained from social engineering, data breaches and phishing attacks. The value of this attack type is that it can frequently yield more highly valuable outcomes, including wider access to computing resources and data.
The seedata.io platform is an effective countermeasure against such attacks, offering our users early detection of similar activities by creating seeded user accounts that send signals back to our platform