Report: Financial industry in crosshairs of credential-stuffing botnets

Akamai's State of the Internet report highlights a sharp rise in credential-stuffing botnet attacks against financial services — reporting roughly 100 billion malicious login attempts between Nov 2017 and Jun 2018 (with spikes such as 8.3 billion attempts in May–June). The article details two case studies where botnet-driven bursts and low-and-slow attacks overwhelmed institutions, notes credentials are often sourced from breached data sold on the Dark Web, and urges organizations to adopt proactive defenses and risk assessments.