Botnets Pony Steals 2 Million Password Log in

Botnets Pony Steals 2 Million Password Log in - Researchers have found an online database filled with stolen account information and passwords from popular web services such as Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and Google. This discovery revealed by the security team Trustwave SpiderLab revealed that, as much as 1.58 million usernames and passwords have been stolen.

Log consists of 318,121 Facebook account, 21,708 Twitter account, 54,437 Google -based accounts, and 59,549 Yahoo account. The rest is that accounts related to servers such as FTP accounts, and secure shell remote desktop.

By region, the main target countries are the Netherlands, because 97 percent of the stolen login comes from the state, followed later Thailand, Germany, Singapore, including Indonesia. Researchers revealed based on statistical region it believes the Dutch became the main target of the attack.

According to investigators, the culprit is the botnet controller Pony, types and keylogging malware powerful spy that can record the infected user login and password when accessing websites and Internet applications. Botnets can be made and placed directly through the control panel CMS and is associated with a SQL database, which will store the data automatically login infected user and password.

Overall, only 5 percent of 2 million passwords were considered excellent by Trustwave, password using four types of characters with more than 8 characters long. 17 percent good, 44 percent moderate, 28 percent poor and 6 percent are not feasible.

Password is not feasible generally only consists of a sequence of numbers such as 123456, 1234569, 1234; there is even a form of the word "password.”

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