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Aug 19 2026 Password spraying attacks surge 155x as hackers exploit MFA gaps

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Huntress observed a 155x increase in password spraying attacks in H1 2026, including a campaign that generated more than 81 million login attempts in two weeks. The attacks exploited legacy authentication and gaps in MFA policies that left some login flows unprotected. [...]

Posted by Sponsored by Huntress Labs on Wed 19 August 2026 in BleepingComputer.

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