Quick facts
- 22% of US adults have fallen victim to ATO fraud.
- Attackers try to appear human to bypass defenses during credential stuffing attacks.
- Attacks occur in waves.
- Evasion techniques include residential IPs and clean browser sessions.
- Adversaries time attacks to mimic real user traffic patterns
- Layered defenses to stop ATO are absolutely vital.
What is account takeover (ATO), and how do attacks work?
Wave One — Standard tooling: a surge in traffic using a worldwide proxy network and browser session hijacking.
Wave Two — First retooling: a full-force attack using localized residential IPs and clean browser sessions.
Wave Three — Second retooling: a slower attack, using the same tools as Wave Two but starting in the morning to mimic real human traffic.
What’s the impact of account takeover on your business?
From your revenue to your customer experience to your very brand itself, credential stuffing attacks have a range of harmful effects:
- Increased fraud claims and costs
- High password authentication and other infrastructure costs
- Potential for expensive regulatory fines
- Loss of customer loyalty (and customers themselves)
- Damage to your reputation and brand equity
378%
Account takeover (ATO) fraud climbed 378% over the past 3 years.
Why is Kasada effective for stopping ATO?
Kasada looks for immutable evidence of automation from the very first request, instead of relying on contextual data from the past which takes time and ongoing maintenance. Our approach stops malicious login requests from ever entering your infrastructure where damage can be done. Whereas traditional tools simply take too long to make their decision and get tricked when bots hide behind residential proxy networks.
Kasada makes bots, not humans, do the work, by cleverly deterring synthetic traffic with a proof-of-work challenge that makes it arduous and expensive for bots to continue their attacks, while remaining imperceptible to (and requiring no action by humans). This makes brute force methods such as credential stuffing impractical to conduct at scale.
The level of visibility that Kasada provides into application traffic is critical to identifying and isolating attack traffic. Using this visibility, we can create highly accurate indicators of compromise (IOCs) to share with our customers, making sure that if this group visits any of their applications, they’ll be able to monitor them closely and block attacks like this one.
Read the Account Takeover Data Sheet
