Account & Session Takeover Prevention
Prevent Account Takeover to Dramatically Cut Fraud & Abuse
Shift Left on Account Takeover and Fraud Prevention
The challenge of account takeovers and related fraud continues to impact many of the world’s most popular brands. The rise of infostealer malware operations has made addressing this issue even more difficult.
Every month, thousands of end user accounts from social media, entertainment & streaming, and e-commerce platforms are exposed, resulting in millions of dollars in downstream costs.
Account Takeovers and Fraud Harm End Users and Your Reputation
Flare tackles these challenges by collecting and maintaining a world-class dataset of leaked credentials and active session cookies. You can easily access and operationalize this data via API, enabling you to quickly detect risky active sessions, proactively combat fraud, and strengthen the security of your customers.
Understand the ROI of Being Proactive with Flare ASTP
The costs associated with account takeovers of end users can be difficult to quantify.Â
The Flare ASTP ROI calculator will help you understand how many users have exposed accounts on average, how costly those exposures are, and what ROI you can expect in being proactive.
How Leading Companies Prevent Account Takeovers with Flare
Read more about how a leading grocery chain protects it’s loyalty program from fraud with Flare.
Best-In-Class Identity Intelligence
Flare’s threat exposure database contains the industry’s most extensive collection of stealer logs which contain “turnkey” datasets that attackers can leverage in account takeovers.
Robust APIs and Integrations
You can easily connect to Flare’s platform to quickly identify and remediate compromised accounts and sessions leveraging your own workflows. Native SIEM/SOAR integrations as well as Python and GO software development kits (SDK) are available.
AI Powered Dark Web Analysis
Complete Data Transparency
Flare retains full control over data collection and provenance so you can always access primary sources of intelligence and gain a better understanding of how the control of your accounts are moving from customers to criminals.
Account Takeover Prevention Industry Use Cases
E-Commerce & Retail
Deny attackers the chance at making fraudulent purchases, misuse rewards/ loyalty points, or execute return scams
Social Media
Identify accounts that are at risk of being taken over and leveraged in “bot farms” or phishing attacks
Entertainment
Track the active black market that exists for stolen accounts for streaming and gaming services
Finance
Track stealer log data that can be leveraged to attack banking, fintech, and crypto user accounts
of ATO victims were notified by the company that their account had been compromised
of users believe the brand or company is responsible for preventing ATO attacks and securing account credentials
ASTP FAQs
What is Flare Account and Session Takeover Prevention (ASTP)?
Flare ASTP is an API product that enables web app and fraud security teams to connect to Flare’s world-class stealer log collection operation and database to identify compromised accounts and sessions among their users.
Why is session hijacking of end user accounts a problem?
Session cookies are particularly valuable to attackers because they allow them to bypass authentication entirely, including multi-factor authentication (MFA). In other words, with a stolen session cookie, attackers can maintain access to an account without needing the user’s credentials. Once an end user’s account has been taken over, cyber criminals can monetize access and commit fraud in a variety of ways.Â
How is it different from other methods of ATO prevention?
There are several strategies and vendor solutions available to combat ATO. Many solutions include behavioral analytics, payment fraud detection, and content integrity. However, Flare fills a critical gap by addressing the threat posed by stolen session cookies which has quickly become “the path of least resistance” for cybercriminals to take over accounts.
What do I need to implement for Flare Account and Session Takeover Prevention?
To effectively act on the data provided by Flare, customers need to have mechanisms to verify a cookie’s validity and revoke compromised cookies to mitigate the risk of account takeover.Â
