Corporate Credentials for Sale on the Dark Web: How to Protect Employees and Data

By Raz Rafaeli for Dark Reading
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

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Despite how valuable corporate employees' passwords are and the best efforts of companies to protect their systems, user credentials keep ending up for sale on Dark Web forums. Even with the ever-advancing capabilities of the cybersecurity industry, corporate credentials from all industries appear in these notorious virtual auction halls to be used in a wide range of attacks, from simple phishing to complicated brute-force attacks.

Even cybersecurity companies are not fully immune to such threats. According to ImmuniWeb research, a staggering 97% of cybersecurity companies have data leaks and other security incidents exposed on the Dark Web.

Moreover, the research revealed that 29% of these stolen passwords are weak, with less than eight characters or without uppercase letters, numbers, or other special characters. About 40% of employees from the 162 companies surveyed reused identical passwords from accounts that had been breached. Note that we are talking about cybersecurity industry employees — so awareness is not the issue here. Read Full Article