Account Takeover Protection

Stop credential theft in its tracks with proactive defenses

Online Customer Accounts Are Prime Targets for Takeover Attacks

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Cybercriminals exploit every tool at their disposal to steal credentials and hijack online accounts for profit. They impersonate trusted brands through convincing phishing websites, voice phishing (vishing), text-based scams (smishing), and malware delivered across both mobile and desktop platforms.

Compromised credentials lead to threat actors seizing control of customer accounts. They carry out fraudulent transactions that can inflict serious financial losses and long-term damage to an organization's reputation.

Proactively Detect Advanced Phishing Attacks

Threat actors are continually refining their tactics to bypass detection technologies. By developing new evasion techniques, scammers are able to keep phishing campaigns live longer, boosting their chances of success.

To reduce impact, organizations must detect and disrupt these campaigns quickly. But staying ahead of sophisticated evasion methods requires advanced, adaptive countermeasures capable of identifying threats as they emerge.

Fortra Brand Protection leverages advanced anti-evasion techniques to uncover and analyze active threat campaigns. Our experts go beyond surface-level detection, mapping out associated infrastructure and generating high-fidelity, actionable intelligence. This intelligence is continuously fed into our detection systems, enhancing their speed and precision to identify threats earlier and shut down malicious campaigns before they launch or cause damage.

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Secure Your Customers’ Most Sensitive Online Data

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Cybercriminals expertly manipulate users into revealing login credentials and sensitive information. Once inside, they exploit compromised accounts to steal data, spread malware, and launch broader attacks.

Early detection is critical. Identifying phishing campaigns before damage is done allows businesses to safeguard customer data and prevent account takeovers. But this level of protection demands broad, proactive visibility across a wide range of online intelligence sources.

Fortra Brand Protection technology consumes and monitors intelligence from a robust set of sources, including over 350 million potential phishing URLs daily from new domain registrations, SSL transparency logs, passive DNS data, active DNS queries, and DMARC failure reports. With advanced proactive detection, the largest phishing dataset, and world-class expertise, our ability to accurately detect phishing campaigns that lead to account takeover attacks is unparalleled.

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Web

Continual data collection from surface web, deep web, dark web, and mobile app stores

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Data Feeds

Data feed ingestion of URLs, passive DNS, SSL certs, DMARC reports, email, SMS, and malware

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Automation

Unparalleled breadth of automated data collection combined with expert mining methods

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Pivoting

Pivoting processes identify related threat infrastructure for deeper disruption

Unrivaled Takedown at Enterprise Scale

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When paired with early detection, swiftly disrupting phishing infrastructure and taking down credential theft sites greatly reduces the risk of account compromise. However, navigating the inconsistent and often slow processes of ISPs, hosting providers, and registrars can delay response. By partnering with Fortra Brand Protection, your organization gains access to a global network of provider relationships, accelerating takedowns and expanding your ability to stop attacks fast.

Additionally, fraud actors are increasingly using sophisticated automation to multiply the number of lures they distribute and improve their chances of success. Effective takedown of attack infrastructures and malicious sites requires streamlined reporting processes, trusted relationships, and automated integrations.

Yet businesses still face volumes too high to manage effectively, leading to prolonged exposure and elevated risk. With direct access to automated killswitches and preferred escalation integrations, Fortra Brand Protection's customers enjoy unrivaled threat takedown at enterprise scale.

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Takedown

Killswitch integrations, takedown APIs, strategic relationships, browser-blocking, DMCA takedowns

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Integrations

APIs, SIEMs, SOARs, TIPs, FWs, and IDPs

 

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Client Web App

Executive dashboard, incident management, intuitive workflows, reporting, and analytics

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Reporting APIs

Threat intelligence indicators, incident data reporting, and incident creation

FAQs

ATO is a form of identity theft where a threat actor acquires credentials to take over accounts to engage in fraudulent activities. This threat often results in significant reputation damage and financial loss for businesses.

Account takeovers happen because cybercriminals exploit weaknesses in user security and organizational defenses to gain unauthorized access to online accounts. Once attackers gain access, they can steal sensitive data, commit fraud, or launch further attacks. The increasing sophistication of hacking techniques and the widespread reuse of passwords make accounts especially vulnerable to takeover.

Prevention is extremely important when combating ATO. Organizations need to take strong measures like strong passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA), vigilance, and having cybersecurity solutions that accurately detect threats that lead to ATO.

Prevent Account Takeover Fraud