Legitimate employee access can let criminals circumvent security controls that would be difficult to overcome from outside an organization. Routine actions such as information lookups, account resets, transaction approvals and shipment changes can become services sold to criminal customers, according to Intel 471’s Insiders for Hire: Underground Recruitment, Access Claims and Insider-Enabled Services report.
Criminal recruiters want people on your payroll
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