Credential Harvesting

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Credential Harvesting designates the set of attack methods whose objective is to collect identity attributes and credentials with the objective of compromising the related digital identities.

Example data targets

• Email address

• Login ID

• Password

• Session Token (especially in Web Cookies)

Example actors

• Human attacker

• Worm (ex: Nimba)

Example methods

• In-memory data (especially plaintext passwords)

• Files

• Phishing website

• Web scraping

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