Stories from the SOC: Fighting back against credential harvesting with ProofPoint

Executive summary

Credential harvesting is a technique that hackers use to gain unauthorized access to legitimate credentials using a variety of strategies, tactics, and techniques such as phishing and DNS poisoning. Phishing is the most frequent type of cyber threat and can lead to more harmful attacks such as ransomware and credential harvesting.

According to recent research, phishing assaults targeted credential harvesting in 71.5% of cases in 2020. 72% of employees admitted to clicking on a phishing email's malicious …

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