Russian band dedicated to cybercrime has become the largest collection of Internet known stolen credentials, including 1.200 million usernames and passwords and more than 500 million e-mail addresses, as researchers have revealed security firm Security Hold The New York Times.
Records of the Russian network include materials Confidential collected 420,000 websites including both household names and small websites . Hold Security, which discovered the theft last year of tens of millions of records from Adobe Systems, has not revealed the name of the targeted sites, citing confidentiality agreements and the reluctance of reputable companies to recognize the vulnerability of their sites.
“ hackers not only have targeted U.S. companies pointed to any website that could get data from Fortune 500 companies to small websites” said Alex Holden, founder and director of information security Hold Security. “And most of these sites are still vulnerable.” Alex Holden ruled out any connection between the hackers and the Russian government . In this regard, he noted that several Russian websites were also hacked and moved it plans to alert police of Russia after the publication of research. So far, cybercriminals have not sold many records stolen online. Instead, it appears they are using the stolen information to send spam on social networks like Twitter , after consulting with other groups, charging for this work.Now you can ITespresso read articles on Google Currents: Subscribe
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