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Credential Harvesting

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

Credential Harvesting may be subdivided into

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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