Subj : Businesses are facing increased identity-based attacks, and rouge
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Apr 28 2025 16:15:07

Businesses are facing increased identity-based attacks, and rouge 
applications are a top culprit

Date:
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Description:
Many firms lost $100,000 and more to these attacks.

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minals are increasingly targeting login credentials, session cookies, and 
more The threat of identity-based attacks is rising The costs are adding up, 
and businesses are slow to respond 

Businesses are facing an increase in identity-based attacks, and rogue 
applications are the top culprit, research from the Huntress 2025 'Managed 
ITDR Report: Identity Is the New Security Perimeter'. 

Based on a survey of more than 600 IT and security professionals, Huntress 
new report states that two-thirds (67%) of organizations reported an increase 
in identity-based incidents in the last three years. 

Whats more, these attacks comprised more than 40% of security incidents for 
more than a third (35%) of organizations in the past 12 months alone. 

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Huntress further claims that rogue applications are the number one concern 
here. Almost half (45%) or respondents said they encountered rogue and/or 
malicious applications in the past, while 46% described them as a top 
identity -based concern. 

To make matters worse, detection and response times are not keeping up. More 
than half (53%) said they need hours to detect such an incident, and 
two-thirds (68%) added that they were unable to detect or respond to the 
threat until the actors already established persistence. 

Huntress also warned that the financial impact of these attacks is 
significant. Aside from the downtime and reputational harm, the researchers 
found a third (32%) of businesses losing at least $100,000 as a result. 

Theres no denying identity is the new endpoint. With widespread cloud 
adoption, the shift to hybrid work, and an increased reliance on SaaS 
applications, the identity attack surface has exploded over the past few 
years, said Prakash Ramamurthy, Chief Product Officer at Huntress. 

Hackers are no longer wasting time breaking into networks the hard way. 
Theyre logging in using stolen credentials, session cookies, and access 
tokens to bypass endpoint protection and exploit weak multi-factor 
authentication. 

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network access (ZTNA), that help mitigate this threat. You might also like 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/businesses-are-facing-increased-identit
y-based-attacks-and-rouge-applications-are-a-top-culprit


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