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PRODUCT: SESSION IDENTITY PROTECTION

Prevent Employee Session Hijacking

with Post-Infection Intelligence

Cybercriminals are stealing valid cookies from infostealer-infected devices to take over application sessions – bypassing passwords, passkeys, and even MFA. SpyCloud gives SOC and IAM teams visibility into malware-exfiltrated session cookies so you can terminate risky sessions, protect workforce identities, and prevent stealthy session hijacking attacks.
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Turn exfiltrated session data into a defense signal

SpyCloud delivers compromised cookie data associated with your domains, including the information you need to identify which employee accounts are at risk and terminate active sessions. It gives SOC and IAM teams a head start in preventing stealthy account takeover targeting your workforce.

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Identify hidden access
Uncover stolen session cookies and tokens that could grant unauthorized access to internal tools, SSO platforms, and critical systems
Disrupt session hijacking
Trigger remediation actions like session termination, token revocation, or forced reauthentication to stop attackers in their tracks
Reinforce MFA and Zero Trust posture
Prevent criminals from bypassing authentication controls and uphold the integrity of your identity infrastructure
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SpyCloud Session Identity Protection for Employees FAQs

Session hijacking occurs when a user’s web session is taken over by an attacker. When you log into a site or application, the server sets a temporary session cookie in your browser. This lets the application remember that you’re logged in and authenticated. Some cookies may last only 24-48 hours, while others last for months.

Leveraging malware-siphoned web and device session cookies, bad actors can perpetrate session hijacking which bypasses the need for credentials (username + password combo), multi-factor authentication (MFA) and even passkeys altogether. Session hijacking is an increasingly prevalent precursor to fraud, and even more frightening to the enterprise, ransomware attacks.

Easily (unfortunately).

Step 1: Trick user into clicking on a dangerous link or downloading a malicious attachment to infect their device with malware.

Step 2: The malware siphons all manner of data from the infected device, including credentials, autofill info, and web session cookies without the user being aware of the infection.

Step 3: The criminal can then use a stolen session cookie to authenticate as the user – without the need for a username and password – bypassing security and fraud controls including MFA.

Typically criminals gain access to session cookies by one of two ways: either by deploying malware directly onto a user’s device, or by buying or trading botnet logs on the darknet. Once a criminal acquires the stolen web session cookies, it is scary how quickly and easily they launch account takeover attacks on both personal and work accounts, and then the possibilities of what they can do are endless, and just as shocking. With cookies from corporate applications – even third-party applications like SSO and VPN – criminals can impersonate the employee, gain access to private information, and change access privileges to move throughout the organization with ease.

It is critical that organizations proactively prevent session hijacking because not only does it make you vulnerable to account takeover, it is also an easy way for criminals to launch a ransomware attack from inside the corporate network or a critical workforce service (including SSO). Once criminals have access to corporate applications, they can easily move laterally throughout the organization disguised as a legitimate user and attempt to escalate privileges in order to access and encrypt valuable company data.

An employee with poor cyber habits who clicks on a malicious link or downloads a suspicious document and gets infected with an infostealer – aka an unwitting insider threat – is one of the most exploitable entry points for ransomware.

SpyCloud’s recent survey of more than 300 security leaders revealed that major ransomware attacks in the last two years have heightened malware concerns, causing organizations to further bolster their security framework with additional layers. Solutions that have not been highly considered before, such as monitoring for compromised web sessions, are now among the top countermeasures planned for investment. This suggests that organizations are looking to extend protection to other areas as threat actors, confronted with the more traditional defenses, shift their focus to other vulnerabilities that are less often or less thoroughly protected.

For enterprises, the best way to prevent session hijacking is by understanding what it is and how it’s executed, monitoring for stolen web sessions programmatically, and developing a process to invalidate web sessions related to infected users. Reacting quickly ensures criminals stay locked out and prevents them from reaping the benefits of malicious activity.

Since web sessions can be valid for a couple of days or even a couple of months, having early insights about malware-compromised sessions can help organizations act quickly to thwart session hijacking.

Yes. With a valid authentication cookie and an anti-detect browser, a criminal can masquerade as a legitimate user no matter what authentication method you have in place. Simply put, session hijacking renders passkeys, passwords and even MFA irrelevant. We cover the issue in depth in this blog article.