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The latest F5 Credential Stuffing Report has revealed that credential spill incidents have doubled between 2016 to 2020 . Sander Vinberg , Threat Research Evangelist , F5 Labs and Report Co-Author has urged organisations to remain vigilant .

nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020 , according to F5 ’ s latest Credential Stuffing Report .

Released recently , the most comprehensive research initiative of its kind reported a 46 % downturn in the volume of spilled credentials during the same period . The average spill size also declined , falling from 63 million records in 2016 to 17 million last year . Meanwhile , the 2020 median spill size ( 2 million records ) represented a 234 % increase over 2019 and was the highest since 2016 ( 275 million ).

Credential stuffing , which involves the exploitation of large volumes of compromised username and / or email and password pairs , is a growing global problem . As a directional case in point , a Private Industry Notification issued by the FBI last year

F5 found that most fuzzing attacks occurred prior to the public release of the compromised credentials , which suggests that the practice is more common among sophisticated attackers .

warned that the threat accounted for the greatest volume of security incidents against the US financial sector between 2017 and 2020 ( 41 %).

“ Attackers have been collecting billions of credentials for years . Credential spills are like an oil spill , once leaked , they are very hard to clean up because

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