Synthetic Identity Theft in 2025: How Digital Identity Intelligence Detects Fraud That Doesn’t Exist

Synthetic identity theft — where criminals combine real and fabricated data to create entirely new “people” — is one of the fastest-growing forms of digital fraud. Unlike traditional identity theft, which steals from real individuals, synthetic identity fraud manufactures fake identities that appear legitimate to verification systems. This sophisticated type of fraud is costing organizations […]

Behavioral Policy Violations and Endpoint Weaknesses Exposed by Infostealers

Co-authored by Constella Intelligence and Kineviz Most companies have no reliable way of knowing how corporate email accounts are being used, whether policies are being followed, or if critical data is being shared on unmonitored platforms. Malware does more than steal credentials. Infostealers’ bounty includes live sessions, saved credentials, browser configurations, and user interactions across infected devices […]

Top Strategies for Effective and Secure Identity Risk Monitoring

Today, digital footprints are as significant as physical ones, which is why the importance of secure identity risk monitoring cannot be overstated. With the constant evolution of cyber threats, it’s crucial to implement robust strategies to protect not only personal but also professional identities from potential risks. As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, staying one step […]

Closing the Visibility Gap: Corporate Exposure Analytics in the Infostealer Era

Co-authored by Constella Intelligence and Kineviz As infostealer malware continues to scale in reach, automation, and precision, organizations face an increasingly urgent challenge: a lack of comprehensive visibility across their identity exposure landscape. While credential leaks and cookie thefts are often detected in isolation, without centralized and time-aware analytics, security teams cannot understand the true extent […]

The Industry’s Passkey Pivot Ignores a Deeper Threat: Device-Level Infections

Passkeys Are Progress, But They’re Not Protection Against Everything The cybersecurity community is embracing passkeys as a long-overdue replacement for passwords. These cryptographic credentials, bound to a user’s device, eliminate phishing and prevent credential reuse. Major players, like Google, Apple, Microsoft, GitHub, and Okta, have made passkey login widely available across consumer and enterprise services. […]

Understanding the Two Sides of Infostealer Risk: Employees and Users

Co-authored by Constella Intelligence and Kineviz Infostealer malware dominates today’s cyber threat landscape. Designed to extract credentials, cookies, session tokens, autofill data, and other forms of digital identity, infostealers operate silently, persistently, and at industrial scale. They are no longer just a precursor to other attacks—infostealers are the breach. There are two critical vectors of […]

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Identity Intelligence: The Front Line of Cyber Defense

Identity is the connective tissue of today’s enterprise. But with identity comes exposure. Credentials are being stolen, resold, and reused across the cybercriminal underground at a scale that far outpaces traditional defenses. Identity intelligence – the process of collecting, correlating, and acting on data tied to digital identities – has become a core pillar of […]

Breaking the Lifecycle of Stolen Credentials Before It Breaks You

From Breach to Exploit: How Stolen Credentials Fuel the Underground Economy In cybersecurity, breaches often make headlines. But what happens next – after usernames and passwords, or active session cookies, are stolen – is just as dangerous. The lifecycle of stolen credentials reveals a dark ecosystem of harvesting, trading, and exploitation. This post explores how […]

How One Leaked Credential Can Expose a Threat Actor

The Power of One: From Leaked Credential to Campaign Attribution Attribution has always been the elusive prize in threat intelligence. The question every CISO wants answered after an attack: “Who did this?” Historically, attribution required heavy resources, deep visibility, and sometimes even luck. But in today’s world of digital risk intelligence, one leaked credential can […]

Why Identity Signals Are Replacing IOCs in Threat Intelligence

The CISO’s View: Too Many Alerts, Too Little Context Imagine a SOC analyst under pressure. Their screen is filled with IP addresses, malware hashes, geolocations, login alerts, and thousands of other signals. It’s a flood of noise. IOCs used to be the gold standard for cyber threat detection, but today? Attackers don’t need malware or […]

Turning Dark Web Chaos into Scalable Identity Intelligence

Why Curated Dark Web Identity Data Is Critical for CTI and OSINT Platform Success For platforms that serve cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and open-source intelligence (OSINT) professionals – such as link analysis tools, identity verification platforms, or investigative search engines – providing reliable dark web and breach data as part of your offering is a […]