Compromised Site Management Panels are a Hot Item in Cybercrime Markets

This report examines a commoditized underground market for compromised cPanel hosting credentials, based on analysis of over 200,000 monitored posts; it details how credentials are acquired (credential stuffing, phishing, vulnerable webapps), how they are marketed and priced, the broad impacts (phishing infrastructure, spam, data exfiltration, domain/IP blacklisting), and recommends mitigations such as MFA, strong passwords, patching, and monitoring for exposed credentials.