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How Infostealers Pillaged the World’s Passwords
Infostealer malware is swiping millions of passwords, cookies, and search histories. It’s a gold mine for hackers—and a disaster for anyone who becomes a target.
The malware, which often finds its way onto people’s machines through downloads of pirated software, can steal usernames and passwords, cookies, search history, financial information, and more from web browsers. If a data dump included working login credentials for a corporate employee’s enterprise accounts, a ransomware gang, business email compromise scammer, or state-backed actor could use the access as a jumping off point to launch their attacks. The use of infostealers has been working so well that it is all but inevitable that cybercriminals will look to replicate the success of compromise sprees like Snowflake and get creative about other enterprise software services that they can use as entry points for access to an array of different customer companies.
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