Jurisdiction Shopping: How Cybercriminals Weaponize Regulatory Fragmentation Against Multi-State Enterprises
Sophisticated threat actors no longer attack the strongest point in an enterprise's identity infrastructure — they attack the most lenient one. Across the United States, where identity verification requirements shift from state to state, large organizations operating in multiple jurisdictions are unknowingly advertising their weakest entry points. This investigation examines how attackers systematically exploit regional compliance gaps and why cryptographic identity standards may be the only dur