Account Takeover Fraud Protection

Stop credential theft in its tracks with proactive defenses

Account Takeover Attacks Put Every Login at Risk

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Cybercriminals use every tactic available to steal credentials and seize online accounts. From convincing phishing sites and voice scams (vishing) to text-based fraud (smishing) and malware across mobile and desktop devices, attackers stop at nothing.

Once credentials are compromised, threat actors can hijack customer accounts, execute fraudulent transactions, and cause not only major financial losses but also lasting damage to your organization’s reputation.

Stay Ahead of Sophisticated Phishing Attacks

Threat actors constantly evolve their tactics to slip past detection. By deploying new evasion techniques, scammers keep phishing campaigns active longer, maximizing their chances of success.

To limit damage, organizations need to detect and disrupt these campaigns quickly. Staying ahead of advanced evasion methods requires adaptive countermeasures that can spot threats the moment they emerge.

Fortra Brand Protection applies advanced anti-evasion technology to uncover and analyze active phishing campaigns. Our experts map the hidden infrastructure behind attacks and deliver high-fidelity intelligence that continuously strengthens detection systems. The result: faster, more precise identification of threats and the ability to shut down malicious campaigns before they launch or inflict damage.

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Protect Your Customers’ Most Sensitive Data Online

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Cybercriminals are skilled at tricking users into giving up credentials and sensitive data. Once they gain access, compromised accounts become launchpads for data theft, malware distribution, and wider attacks.

Early detection is essential. Stopping phishing campaigns before damage occurs protects customer data and prevents account takeovers. Achieving this requires broad, proactive visibility across diverse online intelligence sources, ensuring threats are spotted and neutralized before they escalate.

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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Early detection is only part of the equation. Swiftly disrupting phishing infrastructure and taking down credential theft sites dramatically reduces the risk of account compromise. Yet navigating the slow, inconsistent processes of ISPs, hosting providers, and registrars can create critical delays.

Fortra Brand Protection accelerates your response. Through a global network of trusted provider relationships, automated integrations, and streamlined reporting, your organization can take down threats faster and more efficiently.

Fraudsters are using sophisticated automation to amplify attacks and increase success rates. Effective takedowns require not just speed, but scale — and the ability to act across high volumes of threats without delay. With direct access to automated killswitches and preferred escalation channels, Fortra Brand Protection delivers unrivaled enterprise-scale threat takedown, keeping attacks contained before they can inflict damage.

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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