How would you detect stuffing or spraying in authentication logs?

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Look for many usernames failing once or twice from the same source or network. Look for a single username failing many times from many sources. Track user agent reuse. Watch for spikes in failures around shift changes or campaigns. Correlate with registration and password reset flows. Add a simple rule that flags the same password guess across many accounts.

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Detect: group by src_ip, username, hour; alert on wide but shallow failure pattern

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How would you detect stuffing or spraying in authentication logs?

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