Leading with Intelligence: Winning Against Credential Theft

This analysis explains how modern infostealer malware (e.g., RedLine, Vidar) and related cyber-crime markets drive large-scale theft of credentials—recording roughly one billion compromised credentials in the first half of 2023—enabling account takeover and downstream access to corporate systems; it reviews infection vectors (malvertising, bundled downloads, phishing), highlights MFA bypass and session-cloning risks, and recommends stronger identity intelligence, hardware tokens or passkeys, and greater transparency in IAM security.