Password Spraying: How it Works and Why it Still Succeeds

One threat actor made more than 81 million login attempts against Microsoft 365 accounts in just two weeks this summer. They succeeded, in part, because the attack looked almost too boring to notice. That’s the paradox of password spraying: it’s a technique so simple it barely resembles an “attack” at all, and yet it remains […] The post Password Spraying: How it Works and Why it Still Succeeds appeared first on Sift .