Google’s Scary Hack Stats
With more than 15% of Internet users reporting takeovers of their email or social networking accounts, new research by Google and the University of California, Berkeley has shed light on how passwords are stolen and how accounts are hacked.
Tracking Black Markets
The research, which took place between March 2016 and March 2017, and focused on password stealing tactics, tracked several black markets that traded third-party password breaches, as well as 25,000 blackhat tools used for phishing and keylogging.