Every day, stolen credentials are bought, sold, and exploited on the dark web, fueling account takeovers, data breaches, and financial fraud. Organizations must act fast to stop these threats before they escalate. Yet, traditional security tools struggle to detect compromised credentials before it’s too late.
According to Bitsight’s upcoming State of the Underground 2025 report, leaked credentials surged by 24% and logs listed on underground markets rose by 13.2% in 2024 alone. As cybercriminals refine their tactics, organizations need smarter ways to detect and mitigate identity threats in real time.
Our Identity Intelligence module puts the odds back in your favor, providing real-time monitoring of leaked credentials to help detect threats before attackers exploit them. With instant alerts, continuous monitoring, and actionable insights, security teams can proactively respond to identity threats rather than reacting after a breach has occurred. Leveraging Bitsight’s elite threat intelligence services team, organizations can even reclaim or remove compromised credentials from underground markets before they are exploited.
Every organization is made up of individuals—each a potential target for cybercriminals. Cybercriminals target employees, stealing and selling their corporate logins, to give attackers an easy gateway into internal systems. These compromised identities are often used to bypass security controls, escalate privileges, or move laterally across networks.
Bitsight continuously monitors underground sources—including the clear, deep, and dark web—to track compromised credentials in real time. Bitsight:
With Bitsight Cyber Threat Intelligence, security teams can identify the likely source of data breaches and intercept the sale of stolen credentials before they are exploited.
From activation, the Identity Intelligence module leverages Bitsight EASM to provide immediate visibility into compromised accounts and continuously monitor organizational domains across the cybercriminal underground. It also alerts security teams when malware gains access to their domain and is being sold, offering the option to reclaim or remove compromised access through Bitsight.
The Identity Intelligence module offers two key views:
Compromised credentials tracks exposed credentials linked to specific systems—corporate portals, Jira instances, streaming services, and more. These credentials primarily originate from data dumps from known breaches, anonymous leaks, underground chatter, stealer malware (infostealer) logs, and credentials sold in Log markets, and may include leaked email-password combinations. However, due to the nature of underground data sharing, attribution isn’t always precise.
“Access currently for sale” displays information on compromised devices, typically via stealer malware, that is available for purchase across underground markets. This data is based on the assets (domains and IPs) that are listed in an organization’s attack surface. With Bitsight’s elite threat intelligence services, we can infiltrate limited-access marketplaces to covertly take down and purchase stolen access being sold across the dark web.
Having access to thousands of leaked credentials can be overwhelming, and not all exposures pose immediate risks. The Identity Intelligence module includes advanced filtering to help security teams focus on high-priority threats.
Bitsight partners with no-code security automation providers (Torq, Tines, Etc.) as well as SOAR platforms like Splunk, Cortex XSOAR to bridge the gap between intelligence and immediate action. This enables users to run ‘playbooks’ when uncovering specific intelligence items to remediate immediate threats as they emerge.
With Bitsight’s Identity Intelligence module, you have access to the most pressing compromised credential information, optimally positioning you to take immediate action.
Ready to take control of identity threats? Talk to our team about getting started, or get a preview with our interactive product demo.
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