SpyCloud

SpyCloud provides identity threat protection built on one of the industry’s largest repositories of recaptured breach, malware, and darknet data, which it uses to identify exposed credentials, session cookies, and other authentication artifacts before attackers can weaponize them for account takeover or ransomware access. The company’s core insight is that most identity-based attacks rely on previously stolen credentials that already exist in criminal marketplaces or malware logs, so surfacing that exposure proactively can prevent the resulting account compromise rather than only detecting it after the fact.

Founded in 2016 and based in Austin, Texas, SpyCloud has built its detection capability specifically around recaptured data from infostealer malware logs, which increasingly include not just passwords but session tokens that let attackers bypass multi-factor authentication entirely by hijacking an already-authenticated session. This malware-log-derived intelligence has become an increasingly important data source as infostealer malware has grown into one of the most common initial-access techniques used by ransomware affiliates and other criminal actors.

At the 2026 Global InfoSec Awards, SpyCloud won Market Leader in the Insider Threats category, reflecting recognition for its identity exposure data extending into insider-risk use cases where compromised credentials belonging to legitimate employees represent one of the most common paths into an organization.