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Sead Fadilpašić

User identities becoming an increasingly popular target for scammers

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Instead of hacking into company networks and corporate accounts, threat actors are increasingly choosing to exploit user identities instead, new research has claimed.

Not only is it easier to pull off, such identity theft tactics are also harder for victims to detect, meaning the damage a hacker can do this way is significantly bigger, according to the 2024 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index from IBM’s cybersecurity arm, X-Force. 

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