Cybercriminals are increasing credential theft attacks

This article explains how attackers steal credentials—through phishing, info‑stealing malware, session/token capture, and purchase of leaked credentials—why stolen credentials are particularly dangerous for SMBs and cloud/SaaS environments, and prescribes mitigations such as phishing‑resistant MFA (FIDO2), least privilege, IP/endpoint restrictions, account audit logging, and Zero Trust controls to limit the blast radius of compromised accounts.