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Over 100K hacking forums accounts exposed by info-stealing malware

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Dissent

Ionut Ilascu reports:

Researchers discovered 120,000 infected systems that contained credentials for cybercrime forums. Many of the computers belong to hackers, the researchers say.

Analyzing the data, threat researchers found that the passwords used for logging into hacking forums were generally stronger than those for government websites.

After pouring through 100 cybercrime forums, researchers at threat intelligence company Hudson Rock found that some hackers had inadvertently infected their computers and had their logins stolen.

Read more at BleepingComputer.

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