Another two million passwords stolen - Computer Point

SpiderLabs has unearthed an archive generated by a botnet. Hundreds of thousands of credentials to access Facebook or Google. And an abundance of trivial passwords

Rome – Researchers SpiderLabs keep an eye on the long branches and the spread of the botnet code Pony, and following in the footsteps of several installations of malicious network have discovered a repository of passwords and credentials from about 2 million identity . Inside the need for access to social networks, email, FTP sites, but also for payments, shell and remote desktops.

The lion’s share are obviously Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and Yahoo!: the top five the unfortunate ranking are occupied by the domains related to these four properties, widely popular among the public. The botnets, malware on your PC via installatasi victim, raised rivers of passwords for these accounts. SpiderLabs indicate that there are also a couple of Russian domains in top positions , a proof that the botnet had probably been conceived, designed and also unleashed on the trail of a public-Eastern Europe; in each case are citizens of the Netherlands the main victims of this round. And there is also Automatic Data Processing , the U.S. company that handles payroll for several big names of each industry, which also figure in the top-ten list of domains whose credentials have been withheld.

The data analysis also reveals a growing bad habit: Passwords are once again the most common ones such as “123456″ or “password”, reflecting the fact that the message about to strengthen and change the login credentials did not have much success with the general public . Who’s up in the net of the botnet, and has suffered the theft of even a single password that is contained in that file now, granted the absolute access to all your accounts to anyone in the hands of that database: there is no need guess, just copy and paste.

Overall, there is nothing new sensational told by SpiderLabs. Only a confirmation that the business of stolen passwords is still alive and well , and that there is some way to go to improve boater safety education to the public. ( LA )