On August 7, 2019, a single credential stuffing attack against a financial services company recorded 55,141,782 malicious login attempts. To put that in perspective, it is more than twice the daily average (22,682,022) of credential abuse attacks detected by Akamai Technologies across all companies in all sectors between December 1, 2017, and November 30, 2019 (a total of 85.42 billion attempts).
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Fraudulent Login Attacks Against Banks Surge: Akamai
On August 7, 2019, a single credential stuffing attack against a financial services company recorded 55,141,782 malicious login attempts. To put that in perspective, it is more than twice the daily average (22,682,022) of credential abuse attacks detected by Akamai Technologies across all companies in all sectors between December 1, 2017, and November 30, 2019 (a total of 85.42 billion attempts). The post Fraudulent Login Attacks Against Banks Surge: Akamai appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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