About this insight
Account takeover breaks nothing. It uses a working password, which is exactly why it is so hard to see.
Cloud email credentials are the most sought after: one mailbox gives an attacker intelligence, a trusted identity to phish from, and everything ever sent to that address. Juniper Research puts the worldwide cost to companies at $25bn.
Inside
01Phishing — persuading the user to hand the password over, tailored to how valuable the target is
02Credential stuffing — replaying stolen username and password pairs until one works
03Brute force — bots running combinations from rotating addresses to stay under automated detection
04What happens once they are in: hijacked email threads, onward phishing, changed admin settings, the real user locked out
05The clues to look for: failed logins, unusual devices, times or locations, downgraded browsers, mailbox rules that changed
06A checklist — adaptive MFA, breached-credential feeds, alerting on anomalous logins, and checking mailbox rules regularly
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