{"id":237202,"date":"2017-11-13T09:53:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T07:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=237202"},"modified":"2017-11-13T09:54:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T07:54:53","slug":"how-hijackers-steal-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/237202-how-hijackers-steal-passwords.html","title":{"rendered":"How hijackers steal passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/security.googleblog.com\/2017\/11\/new-research-understanding-root-cause.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google has teamed up<\/strong><\/a> with the University of California, Berkeley to understand how hijackers take over accounts in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>They analysed several black markets between March 2016 and March 2017 to see how hijackers steal passwords and other sensitive data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur research tracked several black markets that traded third-party password breaches, as well as 25,000 blackhat tools used for phishing and keylogging,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese sources helped us identify 788,000 credentials stolen via keyloggers, 12 million credentials stolen via phishing, and 3.3 billion credentials exposed by third-party breaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For third-party breaches, 12% of the exposed records included a Gmail address serving as a username and a password &#8211; of those passwords, 7% were valid due to reuse.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to phishing and keyloggers, attackers frequently target Google accounts to varying success &#8211; 12-25% of attacks yield a valid password.<\/p>\n<p>As a password alone is rarely sufficient for gaining access to a Google account, however, increasingly sophisticated attackers try to collect sensitive data that Google may request when verifying a user&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found 82% of blackhat phishing tools and 74% of keyloggers attempted to collect a user\u2019s IP address and location, while another 18% of tools collected phone numbers and device make and model,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>Google found that phishing posed the greatest threat to users, followed by keyloggers and third-party breaches.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/235744-8-truths-about-employee-passwords.html\">8 truths about employee passwords<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has revealed how hijackers attempt to take over accounts in the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":187165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[167,3676],"class_list":["post-237202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-google","tag-passwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237294,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237202\/revisions\/237294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}