Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging automation to increase the speed and scale of their attacks. Malicious bots can take advantage of simple cybersecurity errors to gain access to and control over an organization’s applications and systems. A prime example of this is the Stealthworker botnet, which was recently discovered on a security researcher’s honeypot system. The botnet leverages poor password security on Internet-facing applications to add systems to the botnet and use them to perform a distributed password guessing attack against similar systems. The Growing Threat of Password-Based Attacks Obviously, passwords have been around for a while. They are the most…
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