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Mozilla blocks password-stealing Firefox add-on

...should change their passwords. For more on this story, see Mozilla disables password-stealing Firefox add-on on CNET News Read more

15 July, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Google alleges China Gmail hack

...that military personnel and political activists were among those targeted in a password-stealing campaign that originated in China Read more

2 June, 2011 by Tom Espiner
McAfee: Why Duqu is a big deal

McAfee: Why Duqu is a big deal

...Q: What is Duqu, and what does it do? A: This is password-stealing and espionage data-capture malware — that seems to be the goal... Read more

26 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Gamer sentenced for stealing Steam passwords

...security company's European division, told ZDNet UK. Istealer software McLoughlin wrapped password-stealing software called Istealer in various progams, including a game called Prototype... Read more

18 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Avalanche Gang: The Ultimate Bank Robbers?

...research, Avalanche has "moved from using conventional phishing to massively propagating stealthy password-stealing crimeware that does not require user cooperation to surrender financial account... Read more

23 October, 2010

Teenagers arrested in cybercrime crackdown

...for all the cards. Malware kits traded on the forum included the password-stealing Zeus Trojan, and compromised data from computers infected with the Zeus... Read more

24 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Another Trojan on the attack

Antivirus companies said they intercepted several copies of a new password-stealing Trojan over the weekend. The new spammed multi-stage Trojan downloader... Read more

8 June, 2004 by Kristyn Maslog Levis

Password-stealing Trojan cut off at source

A malicious program that tried to steal banking passwords has been stopped, says Symantec Read more

7 July, 2004 by Zen Lee
Inside the <endeca_term>Password-Stealing</endeca_term> Business: The Who and How of Identity Theft

Inside the Password-Stealing Business: The Who and How of Identity Theft

...paper outlines contemporary attack techniques used in the most advanced and prevalent password stealing malware families, it explains the tricks of the trade (such as... Read more

1 July, 2009

Is your cat a target for password-stealing hackers

'Easy to guess' names are UK's favourite passwords… Read more

11 August, 2004 by Andy McCue

Trojan poses as fake Lycos screensaver

...the Trojan was dangerous if opened, but no more so than other password-stealing malware. On Friday, Lycos terminated its "Make Love Not Spam" screen... Read more

7 December, 2004 by Dan Ilet

Virus alert: Rbot sets your webcam to spy on you

Password-stealing, DDoS-launching virus sends footage of your home to virus writer... Read more

23 August, 2004 by Jo Best

Phishing scam spurs EC into security revamp

...the company user identification code and password was requested for 'verification'. The password-stealing website has not yet been taken down, according to Helfferich. Once... Read more

5 February, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Kaspersky Detects Deeply Penetrating Sinowal Virus

...cp is categorized as a malicious software , which loads and drops a password stealing component on the computers which are infected . it steals account information... Read more

22 May, 2009
Stop the cookie monster and save Europe's websites

Stop the cookie monster and save Europe's websites

...It talks of storing "information", not cookies, thereby categorising harmless cookies and password-stealing Trojans together. That is unhelpful and we have been left with... Read more

21 May, 2009 by Struan Robertson

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@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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