Why Attackers No Longer Need To Break In: The Rise Of Identity-Based Attacks
Security Boulevard, Friday, February 6th, 2026
Let me tell you about a call I got last month. A finance director panicked, explaining how someone had been inside his company's systems for three weeks. No alarms. No malware detected. Nothing.
Turns out the attacker had bought an employee's VPN credentials off a dark-web forum - cost them maybe $50. They logged in like any other remote worker and quietly copied customer records until someone in accounting noticed strange file-access patterns.
Three weeks, $50 - that is the state of cybersecurity in 2026.