{"id":235493,"date":"2026-06-23T02:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/why-account-takeovers-are-rising-and-how-to-stop-them\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:50:10","slug":"why-account-takeovers-are-rising-and-how-to-stop-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/why-account-takeovers-are-rising-and-how-to-stop-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Account Takeovers Are Rising and How to Stop Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/why-account-takeovers-are-rising-and-how-to-stop-them\/\">Why Account Takeovers Are Rising and How to Stop Them<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/why-account-takeovers-are-rising-and-how-to-stop-them\/\">https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/why-account-takeovers-are-rising-and-how-to-stop-them\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-17 10:00:10<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bleepingcomputer.com\">www.bleepingcomputer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As organizations grow more reliant on hybrid working models, Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) practices, and cloud services, managing the myriad identities accessing these environments has become a formidable challenge. With the rise of sophisticated phishing tactics and increasing attempts to exploit authenticated sessions, attackers now focus more on hijacking legitimate identities rather than directly breaching infrastructure. Security teams find it increasingly difficult to maintain visibility over user access, leading attackers to find quick pathways through compromised accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Credential abuse is driving a surge in account takeover attacks, aided by phishing and MFA fatigue, where attackers bombard users with authentication prompts until they relent. This initial point of access can then be used to escalate privileges and compromise systems internally. Additionally, the expansion of personal devices into corporate networks creates new security vulnerabilities. Traditional identity management approaches, which rely solely on authentication, fail to address this comprehensive risk, necessitating a shift toward continuous verification and device trust models to assess not just credentials, but device security and behavior. Solutions like Specops Device Trust can play a pivotal role in evaluating and remediating these risks in real-time, ensuring robust yet user-friendly security practices.<\/p>\n<p>Key Points:<\/p>\n<p>1. Increasing complexity and flexibility in remote access models are making security oversight difficult.<br \/>\n2. Modern attacks focus on compromising authenticated credentials through phishing and session hijacking.<br \/>\n3. Device-based threats add an extra layer of complexity to identity security.<br \/>\n4. Traditional identity verification is insufficient for today\u2019s dynamic work environments.<br \/>\n5. Continuous verification and device trust solutions are essential to detect and mitigate account takeover risks effectively.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Account Takeovers Are Rising and How to Stop Them https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/why-account-takeovers-are-rising-and-how-to-stop-them\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-17 10:00:10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/content\/posts\/2026\/06\/11\/cyber-laptop.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[31,25],"class_list":["post-235493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-exploit","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235495,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235493\/revisions\/235495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}