Technique
technique:user_agent_fingerprinting
Also: user agent correlation
Using distinctive browser and operating-system user-agent information to correlate activity across systems.
Using distinctive browser and operating-system user-agent information to correlate activity across systems.
“The hacker’s user agent was unique.”
“if there was a matching user agent, then you could know that that’s probably the same person”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| incoming | INVOLVES | LinkedIn data breach | Explicit | 86 |
LinkedIn data breach INVOLVES User-agent fingerprinting
Investigators used the hacker's distinctive user agent to correlate activity across IP addresses and services.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 86 Details
“if there was a matching user agent, then you could know that that’s probably the same person”