DarkReading: Corporate Credentials for Sale on the Dark Web

It’s past time to retire passwords in favor of other methods for authenticating users and securing systems.
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.

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