Security News > 2023 > August > Over 120,000 Computers Compromised by Info Stealers Linked to Users of Cybercrime Forums

A "Staggering" 120,000 computers infected by stealer malware have credentials associated with cybercrime forums, many of them belonging to malicious actors.

"Hackers around the world infect computers opportunistically by promoting results for fake software or through YouTube tutorials directing victims to download infected software," Hudson Rock CTO Alon Gal told The Hacker News.

"It is not a case of the threat actor infecting his own computer, it is that out of the 14,500,000 computers we have in our cybercrime database, some of them happen to be hackers that accidentally got infected."

An examination of the pilfered information reveals that the cybercrime forum with the highest number of infected users is Nulled.

"Overall, passwords from cybercrime forums are stronger than passwords used for government websites, and exhibit fewer 'very weak' passwords than industries like the military."

The top countries from which hackers were infected and had at least one credential to a cybercrime forum include Tunisia, Malaysia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Israel.

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