Nigeria got absolutely hammered by data breaches last quarter, with attacks jumping 1,047 percent compared to the previous three months, and eSentry dropped a report showing hackers were pulling about 6,101 attacks weekly through July. The criminals stopped bothering with technical exploits and just started using valid login credentials they grabbed from old leaks or accounts that companies forgot to shut down after employees left.
Gbolabo Awelewa from esentry said the country is dealing with organized groups instead of random opportunistic hackers, and these crews are patient enough to blend into normal user activity without getting caught early. Digital forensics found dormant service accounts and stale identity tokens, basically giving attackers the keys to entire networks, and they used that access to set up for massive data grabs without raising alarms.
The report warned that identity-based attacks will define the next year for Nigerian companies because adversaries figured out that identity systems are way less protected than core infrastructure. Organizations need to monitor credentials constantly and fix their off-boarding processes before credential misuse spirals into major disruptions.
Gbolabo Awelewa from esentry said the country is dealing with organized groups instead of random opportunistic hackers, and these crews are patient enough to blend into normal user activity without getting caught early. Digital forensics found dormant service accounts and stale identity tokens, basically giving attackers the keys to entire networks, and they used that access to set up for massive data grabs without raising alarms.
The report warned that identity-based attacks will define the next year for Nigerian companies because adversaries figured out that identity systems are way less protected than core infrastructure. Organizations need to monitor credentials constantly and fix their off-boarding processes before credential misuse spirals into major disruptions.
