The US Department of Justice has indicted a man for using a malware botnet to brute force 2.000 computer logon credentials per week and then selling them on a criminal dark web remote access marketplace.
According to the CEO the bad actor leveraged their knowledge of technical systems, along with specialized tools and capabilities, to gain access to our testing environments and then used brute force attacks and other methods to make their way into other IT servers that included customer data.”Compromised information includes customer names, addresses, Social Security numbers […]