Botnet and infected Malware exposes 2,000,000 Passwords

Published on December 4, 2013 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

On Neowin, Brad Sams has notified on some ugly news:

“Over two million passwords for Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others have been posted to the web after a botnet has infected thousands of machines and used a keylogger to obtain passwords. While this breach is not from any particular service, the botnet has clearly been running effectively for some time as it reportedly has over 2 million passwords, 300,000 of which are for Facebook accounts.”

So, if you suspect your account has been hacked, change passwords immediately. Also,

use the online scanners at Kaspersky (or elsewhere) and scan for keystroke loggers since that’s how these minions of the dark side worked their evil.

Comments (Page 3)

ElanaAhova

on Dec 18, 2013

Linkedin is a sharing, networking site to post resumes, etc. They charge to email people on the site.

Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:

Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums.
Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
It's simple, and FREE!