{"id":3778,"date":"2025-05-07T07:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/third-parties-and-machine-credentials-html\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T07:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:04:44","slug":"third-parties-and-machine-credentials-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/third-parties-and-machine-credentials-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Parties and Machine Credentials: The Silent Drivers Behind 2025&#8217;s Worst Breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Third Parties and Machine Credentials: The Silent Drivers Behind 2025&#8217;s Worst Breaches<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>It wasn&#8217;t ransomware headlines or zero-day exploits that stood out most in this year&#8217;s Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) \u2014 it was what fueled them. Quietly, yet consistently, two underlying factors played a role in some of the worst breaches: third-party exposure and machine credential abuse.<br \/>\nAccording to the 2025 DBIR, third-party involvement in breaches doubled<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/05\/third-parties-and-machine-credentials.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third Parties and Machine Credentials: The Silent Drivers Behind 2025&#8217;s Worst Breaches It wasn&#8217;t ransomware headlines or zero-day exploits that stood out most in this year&#8217;s Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) \u2014 it was what fueled them. Quietly, yet consistently, two underlying factors played a role in some of the worst breaches: third-party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778"}],"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=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}