An extraordinary 43 per cent of all attempted online account logins are malicious, Akamai claims in its latest internet security report. “Credential abuse” is an increasingly popular line of attack, thanks in large part to the readily availability of huge user/password databases that has been stolen and are sold online. Akamai identifies two main types of such attacks: “bursty, high-speed login attempts” to break into people’s accounts, and “low and slow attempts to avoid apprehension by spreading login tries across longer time periods,” again to gain unauthorized access to profiles and systems.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register
