USE CASE: PHISHING EXPOSURE REMEDIATION

Remediate Phished Identities

When phishing works, we make it worthless

Phishing is still one of the most effective tactics in the attacker playbook – enabling account takeover, fraud, and targeted identity-based attacks. Whether your workforce or your customers are the target, SpyCloud detects identity data stolen via phishing and delivers automated remediation to stop cybercriminals before they strike.

Avoid phish fallout with identity threat protection

Even the best phishing detection tools miss the mark when it comes to what happens next: credentials and authentication data siphoned in successful phishes are repurposed for account takeover, fraud, and privilege escalation. SpyCloud closes that gap by delivering evidence of compromised phished employee and consumer identities, enabling your team to remediate exposures at scale before attackers can capitalize.

Stop ATO before it starts

Reset passwords or trigger enhanced authentication before attackers weaponize phished credentials

Remediate at scale

Remediate phished employee and customer identities automatically via native integrations or by kicking off a workflow in your SOAR, IAM, or fraud detection platform

Act on hidden risk

Zero in on exposed users who appear on phishing target lists so you can monitor, educate, or take other appropriate steps in advance

EXPLORE PRODUCTS

Illuminate the phish – and erase the exposure with SpyCloud

Workforce Threat Protection

Shut down account takeovers by invalidating phished credentials before attackers hit SSO, VPN, or privileged SaaS apps

Consumer Threat Protection

Detect harvested credentials in real time or via batch processing so you can remediate, trigger enhanced auth, or manual review

Cybercrime Investigations

Uncover the full story behind phishing exposure by tracing the origin of stolen identity data to attacker infrastructure, phishing kits, and criminal campaigns

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EXPLORE WHO USES SPYCLOUD

Defenders
we help

From SOC analysts investigating employee compromise to fraud teams defending customer accounts, SpyCloud empowers defenders with the visibility and automation to neutralize phished identity threats at scale.

SECOPS

Rapidly investigate and remediate phishing exposures to cut off attacker access

FRAUD PREVENTION

Stop account takeovers of phishing victims before losses occur

CISOS

Leverage a robust defense that fills gaps in your anti-phishing program

Next steps

Turn successful phishes into failed attacks – every time

Phishing Exposure Remediation FAQs

Why do phishing-exposed credentials create a different remediation challenge than breach-exposed credentials?

Breach-exposed credentials appear in published datasets with known breach dates, giving security teams a structured notification path. Phishing-exposed credentials are captured in real time by phishing kit infrastructure, distributed through criminal channels immediately, and used within hours or days before they ever appear in a breach notification service. In 2025, phishing attacks surged 400% year over year and SpyCloud recaptured 28.6 million phished identity records including session cookies and authentication tokens captured mid-authentication by AitM phishing kits. Without a mechanism to detect phishing kit output directly, security teams have no way to know which employees were victimized until an attack succeeds.

What authentication artifacts does AitM phishing steal beyond passwords and how does SpyCloud detect them?

Adversary-in-the-middle phishing kits proxy the entire authentication process. When an employee authenticates through the phishing proxy, the kit captures their credentials and critically the session cookie and refresh token the legitimate server issues after authentication succeeds. These post-authentication artifacts are more dangerous than the password because they bypass all subsequent login controls including MFA and passkeys. SpyCloud infiltrates AitM phishing operations directly, recapturing the harvested session artifacts from criminal infrastructure within hours of the original phishing event.

How does SpyCloud identify which employees were victims of a phishing campaign targeting the organization?

SpyCloud monitors domains and email addresses against its continuously updated recaptured phishing dataset. When a phishing campaign captures credentials tied to a customer’s domain, SpyCloud surfaces the affected employee identities, the specific credentials and session artifacts stolen, and the phishing source metadata. This allows security teams to scope remediation precisely: forced password resets and session revocations only for confirmed phishing victims rather than a blanket organization-wide reset that creates operational disruption without proportionate security benefit.

How does phishing exposure remediation connect to ransomware prevention?

Phishing overtook all other attack vectors as the leading ransomware entry point in 2025, accounting for 35% of ransomware incidents, up from 25% in 2024. The attack chain runs from successful phishing capture of employee credentials, to criminal market sale, to ransomware operator acquisition, to lateral movement and encryption. The window between phishing capture and ransomware deployment can be hours. SpyCloud recaptures phishing kit output before the stolen artifacts reach criminal markets, enabling remediation in the same window that would otherwise be used for initial access.

Why does phishing remediation require revoking session tokens and not just resetting passwords?

Password resets close the credential-based access path but do not address the session artifacts that AitM phishing also captures. A refresh token stolen by an AitM phishing kit remains valid for up to 90 days in most enterprise identity provider configurations, regardless of any subsequent password change. An attacker holding a stolen refresh token can silently mint new session cookies throughout that window. Full phishing remediation requires revoking the stolen refresh token and terminating the IdP-level SSO session in addition to resetting the password. SpyCloud surfaces all three stolen artifact types and signals the identity provider to execute all three remediation actions.