{"id":14330,"date":"2026-07-15T20:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/identity-attacks-overtake-exploits-top-ransomware-cause\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:39:13","slug":"identity-attacks-overtake-exploits-top-ransomware-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/identity-attacks-overtake-exploits-top-ransomware-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity Attacks Overtake Exploits as Top Ransomware Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Identity Attacks Overtake Exploits as Top Ransomware Cause<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Email attacks overtook exploits as the top ransomware root cause last year. Multifactor authentication (MFA) was deployed in 97% of credential-based attacks but failed to prevent compromise.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Alexander Culafi<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/identity-access-management-security\/identity-attacks-overtake-exploits-top-ransomware-cause\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity Attacks Overtake Exploits as Top Ransomware Cause Email attacks overtook exploits as the top ransomware root cause last year. Multifactor authentication (MFA) was deployed in 97% of credential-based attacks but failed to prevent compromise. Alexander Culafi Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-14330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}