The moment a password is discovered, a virtual private network (VPN) becomes public quickly. In a report published last week, password management provider Specops Software revealed 2,151,523 VPN credentials exposed by malware over the past year.
One professional at the company revealed that many users aren’t protecting, or even caring all that much about, a valuable network entrypoint based on the 2 million+ VPN passwords that were pulled from the company’s threat-intelligence platform.
“If we look at some of the content of those passwords, that’s where we really start seeing where there’s still, unfortunately, a general apathy around security, and password security in particular,” Darren James, senior product manager at Outpost24 (which acquired Specops in 2021), stated.
This is Qwerty. The report’s most popular passwords are certainly familiar to you; they are the usual consecutive numbers and versions of “password” and “qwerty.” The top compromised password—found 5,290 times, according to Specops—is “123456.”
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents
Read the original article: