Cybercriminals can access networks and commit crimes including fraud, session hijacking, account takeover, and attacks with ransomware using exposed assets, such as usernames and passwords. Even though companies focus on enhancing their security tactics, like adding user authentication such as multifactor authentication and passkeys, criminals too put efforts into constantly being better in their crimes to bypass these high-end security barriers. One such method used commonly by threat actors includes using stolen active session cookies to commit session hijacking, which defeats the effectiveness of the conventionally employed safeguards.
In order to better their network defense and safeguard their customers, organizations and security experts must have a better understanding of the criminals’ methodologies to commit cybercrimes, like how they utilized stolen data for their profit.
Session Cookies
Session cookies are present all over the online space, from websites to applications that assign a cookie or token to identify their users. The series of characters used in the process is further stored on the device, making re-access easie
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