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Credential Re-Use in the Enterprise

ID: cd5b86fd-f955-5119-a9d7-9ce7004da33e

STIX ID: report--cd5b86fd-f955-5119-a9d7-9ce7004da33e

Feed Name: TrustedSec blog

Date Published: 2025-08-06

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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The report warns that users often reuse passwords between regular and administrative accounts and that naming conventions (e.g., adding "-adm") make privileged accounts easy for attackers to find. It notes that testing or an attacker can try known user passwords against paired admin accounts and recommends using a script to identify accounts sharing the same password to improve training and remediation.

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