Account takeover attacks (ATO) are horrible – with an emphasis on horror. Movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers have incorporated tropes like evil twins and assimilation because they tap into a primordial fear of the unknown, making it impossible to know who to trust.
Unfortunately, for most security teams, this is their reality. Once a threat actor gains access to a sufficiently privileged identity – like an alien assimilating its victim – they can go wherever they want to go and do whatever they want to do, under the guise of the privileged account they have compromised. ...read more!
