Threat actors turn to automation tools to boost their campaigns

Automation is having an impact on almost every industry, but it's not just in the world of legitimate commerce that its presence is being felt. A new report from Recorded Future shows criminal enterprises are turning to automation tools too. Indeed the criminal underground has created an ecosystem of tools and resources allowing threat actors to both operationalize and monetize their campaigns increasingly quickly. Tools available via dark web markets include credential checkers that apply stolen IDs and passwords to sites in brute force attacks, loaders that try to bypass endpoint security, keylogger and password stealers, exploit kits, phishing services,… [Continue Reading]