PowerWAF Attacks Encyclopedia

Authentication & Access Attacks

6 documented attacks in this category. Understand the threats, learn detection techniques, and implement effective defenses.

Account Takeover (ATO) is an attack in which a malicious actor gains unauthorized access to a user's account by exploiti...

Broken authentication refers to weaknesses in an application's authentication mechanisms that allow attackers to comprom...

A brute force attack is a trial-and-error method used to guess login credentials, encryption keys, or hidden pages by sy...

A credential stuffing attack is a cyberattack where automated bots use stolen username and password pairs from previous ...

A JWT attack exploits vulnerabilities in JSON Web Token implementation to bypass authentication, escalate privileges, or...

Password spraying is a type of brute force attack that tests a small number of commonly used passwords against a large n...