Category: Account Takeover (ATO)

Account takeover (ATO) is a form of identity theft and fraud. Learn how it works, common indicators to look for, and how to protect your organization.

With more business-to-consumer, business-to-business, and even consumer-to-consumer transactions done over the internet, online accounts have become all the more tantalizing to cybercriminals. In an account takeover (ATO), a hacker assumes unauthorized control over someone else’s account to commit fraudulent transactions (e.g., eCommerce purchases and bank account withdrawals), data theft, and corporate sabotage. There are five […]

Year after year, the number of reported data breaches keeps soaring. In fact, 8.4 billion records were exposed in the first quarter of 2020 alone, which is a 273% jump from the 4.1 billion records exposed in the first half of 2019. However, despite these alarming statistics, many users continue to have poor cyber hygiene […]