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Big Breaches Are Bad; Phishing and Keyloggers May Be Worse

Researchers looked at the capabilities of more than 10,000 phishing kits and more than 15,000 keylogger binaries. “Credential theft is a multi-pronged problem,” write researchers from Google, the University of California Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute in a research paper. “We find that victims of phishing are 400 times more likely to be successfully hijacked compared to a random Google user,” the researchers write. “In comparison, this rate falls to 10 times for data breach victims and roughly 40 times for keyloggers victims””]

Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/big-breaches-are-bad-phishing-keyloggers-may-be-worse-a-10450

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