Cybersecurity firm Okta reports a spike in ‘brute-force’ credential-stuffing attacks over the last month. This follows earlier reports of a spike in ‘brute force’ credential-stuffing attacks reported last week.

Increasingly sophisticated ‘brute force’ attacks use trial and error techniques to crack passwords, login credentials, and encryption keys. New life is now also being breathed into what is essentially an old hacking technique, with widely available software using artificial intelligence (AI) that can carry out large numbers of attempts automatically.