SUNNYVALE, CA – October 6, 2020 – Arctic Wolf®, the leader in security operations, today announced the release of its 2020 Security Operations Report. Using data collected from the Arctic Wolf® Platform and real-world experiences from the Arctic Wolf Concierge Security® Team, the Arctic Wolf Security Operations report quantifies key security operations data from the thousands of environments protected by Arctic Wolf.
While there has been a year-over-year decrease in publicly disclosed data breaches, the report reveals that the number of corporate credentials with plaintext passwords on the dark web has increased by 429 percent since March. For a typical organization, this means there are now, on average, 17 sets of corporate credentials available on the dark web that could be used by hackers. With access to just one corporate account, attackers can easily execute account takeover (ATO) attacks, which allow them to move laterally within an organization’s corporate network and gain access to sensitive data, intellectual property, competitive information, or funds.
The sharp increase in…
