Number of compromised credentials up by 33 percent

The latest Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) from Flashpoint finds that threat actors compromised over 3.2 billion credentials in 2024, a 33 percent increase from the year before. Of these 75 percent or 2.1 billion, were sourced from information stealing malware, a dangerous new twist on an older threat that has infected over 23 million devices worldwide. The report is based on analysis of 3.6 petabytes of data, drawn from various external sources including official reports, ransomware blogs and Freedom of Information requests. It identifies a 10 percent increase in ransomware attacks across all sectors in 2024, following a tremendous… [Continue Reading]