Email Credential Phishing Attack Prevention

Our previous solution delivered a well-crafted phishing email to our technology team, but Sublime identified it as malicious immediately. That was our first 'oh yeah, Sublime is way better' moment.

Patrick Lafleur

Director of Information Security & Privacy, Maple

Credential phishing in a nutshell

Credential phishing attacks are designed to steal login information with fake login pages.

These emails impersonate trusted services and use urgent language to lead targets to a convincing, fake login page.

If credentials are entered, the attacker captures them immediately. The damage doesn't stop at just stealing logins. Once attackers gain access, they can move through an organization, steal sensitive data, send internal phishing emails, or more.

What makes credential phishing so effective

Credential phishing can be difficult to catch when emails appear authentic and malicious links lead to legitimate looking login pages.

Expert impersonation

Credential phishing attacks will clone real notification emails and login pages in order to create authenticity and improve click rates.

Adversary in the middle

Credential phishing attacks can leverage AITM techniques, passing login info from their fake page to a real auth service to bypass suspicion and MFA.

Rapid iteration

Attackers will use phishing kits to rapidly deliver, iterate, and vary attacks, allowing them to learn what techniques get them past security and into inboxes.