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The dark web and Telegram channels offer ‘all-inclusive’ packages for around $80 per week to decrypt access to accounts

Would you leave it open for anyone to enter?” asks Lilian Balatsou, an expert in artificial intelligence linguistics and a doctor in Cognitive Neuroscience from Bangor University, during a meeting of the cybersecurity firm in Athens. “Cybercriminals are very creative, but also lazy,” says Novikova, pointing out that the cyberattack weapons sales channels offer — for €80 ($85) a week — subscription packages that include not only the databases of vulnerable victims, but also the programs and servers to run them without the hacker’s own infrastructure. The experts who participated in the meeting in Athens support instead the use of password managers, programs that can safely store unique users and access codes and even generate strong ones for each use.

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