{"id":14257,"date":"2026-02-26T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/two-thirds-of-2025-cyber-incidents-stemmed-from-identity-compromise\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:39:26","slug":"two-thirds-of-2025-cyber-incidents-stemmed-from-identity-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/two-thirds-of-2025-cyber-incidents-stemmed-from-identity-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"Two\u2011Thirds of 2025 Cyber Incidents Stemmed from Identity Compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><u>Sophos<\/u><\/a>\u00a0today released the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/blog\/2026-sophos-active-adversary-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><u>2026 Sophos Active Adversary Report<\/u><\/a>. It reveals that 67% of all incidents investigated by Sophos Incident Response (IR) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) teams last year were rooted in identity-related attacks.<span id=\"more-13407\"\/> The findings highlight how attackers continue to exploit compromised credentials, weak or missing multifactor authentication (MFA), and poorly protected identity systems \u2014 often without needing to deploy new tools or techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Key findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A shift from exploited vulnerabilities toward compromised credentials, with brute-force activity&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sauditechpost.com\/2026\/02\/26\/two-thirds-of-2025-cyber-incidents-stemmed-from-identity-compromise\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophos\u00a0today released the 2026 Sophos Active Adversary Report. It reveals that 67% of all&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-1196"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}