Infostealer Malware Is Draining Business Credentials — Here’s How to Stop It Threat actors no longer need to breach your perimeter to own your environment. A single infected endpoint, one careless download, or one employee who reuses a password across services can hand attackers the keys to your email, cloud apps, financial accounts, and crypto holdings. The weapon of choice: infostealer malware.
Microsoft engineers recently presented research at the RSA security conference indicating that 99.9% of compromised accounts aren’t using multi-factor authentication (MFA). This statistic alone illustrates the enormous potential for MFA to mitigate account breaches when passwords are either guessed or exfiltrated.
It has recently come to our attention that there is an extremely severe wireless attack crippling the security of wireless networks. The nature of the attach is such that it allows attackers to decrypt wireless traffic as well as inject malicious content in to certain protocols. This vulnerability opens up wireless networks to a series of dangerous situations, whereas an outside intruder can spy or infect computers, as well as gain access to the network to launch more sophisticated attacks.