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Botnet and infected Malware exposes 2,000,000 Passwords

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Botnet and infected Malware exposes 2,000,000 Passwords

from JoeUser Forums

 

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.

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Reply #28 from Elemental Forums Top

Thank you Po, Seth.  Only one of my accounts was hacked.  Only once, way back in 2011.  Pw has been changed since then.  Will change it again.

Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top

These days i could hardly tell what is a 'real' virus anymore, in this huge war against all this 'legitimate' crap mainstream software/internet companies keep trying to load onto my computer!

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Once the server I was using caught a bug. One of those bugs from a hole in apache or php, I don't remember which. Every index.* was changed to be on that said something along the line of "surprise, you've been hacked". I spent days fixing index pages and looking for malicious redirects. Not so fun. I always worry about Facebook and Twitter that they might be victim of a leak like that, and who the heck is Linkedin anyway? I got an account but I'm not sure why.

 

*bawl* I missed the karma.

Reply #31 from Elemental Forums Top

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