Account Takeover Prevention

Stop ATO Before it Impacts Your Bottom Line

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.

 
Passwords, session cookies, browser data, and more are quickly brought to market on the dark web, providing cybercriminals with a steady stream of data that can be exploited and monetized in various ways. 

Book a Demo of Flare Now

How Flare Helps Prevent ATO

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

By leveraging cutting-edge data science techniques and large language models (LLMs), Flare helps you discover and summarize dark web chatter related to ATO, fraud, and other criminal activities related to your industry context. 

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.

Flare is trusted by industry leaders and technology giants for account takeover and fraud prevention use cases

“Before Flare we struggled to catch up to threat actors causing damage after finding customers’ leaked credentials. With Flare’s Threat Exposure Management (TEM) platform we’re staying on top of stolen accounts with automated monitoring and preventing fraud from happening in the first place.”
- CTI Director, National Grocery Chain
Empower Your Defense with Flare's AI Security

How Flare Fits in an ATO Prevention Posture

There are several strategies and vendor solutions available to combat ATO including behavioral analytics and payment fraud detection.
Flare fits left of these solutions by providing critical intelligence from stealer logs, which has quickly become “the path of least resistance” for cybercriminals to take over accounts. Using this intelligence, security teams can remediate accounts at risk of takeover and prevent fraud.

Flare

Stealer Logs

The byproduct of infostealer malware operations, stealer logs from infected devices are packaged and sold on the dark web, sometimes immediately.

Account Takeover

Stealer logs contain logins, session cookies, and browser metadata that makes it trivial for an attacker to take over an active session and bypass MFA.

Other ATO Prevention Solutions

Fraud

Fraud affecting commercial platforms are extensive, including fraudulent purchases, return scams, and misuse of rewards or loyalty points.

Botnet

Attackers can gain control of accounts and incorporate them into “bot farms” to amplify messages, spread disinformation, or conduct phishing attacks.

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

Account for stealerlog data than can be leveraged to attack banking, fintech, and crypto user accounts

29%

of end users reported an account takeover incident in 2023
(Security.org, 2024) 

47%

Account takeovers cost over $100 per account according to a survey of IT/Fraud executives.

(Arkose Labs, 2024)