Research finds sharp increase in Initial Access Brokers listings
Since Digital Shadows published its first report last year, Initial Access Brokers: An Excess of Access, the company has continued to closely monitor the IAB criminal category. Where it tracked roughly 500 IAB listings in all of 2020, already in 2021 it has found some 200 new listings published by IABs in cybercriminal forums and other dark web sources in just Q1.
IABs have continued to actively operate in underground criminal forums and provide third-party threat actors with continuous access to vulnerable organizations’ networks. Key findings from this quarterly report include: