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Current Filter: Security>>>>>News> Rise of the Cybervors Editorial Type: News Date: 09-2014 Views: 2307  Key Topics: Security Cyber Attacks Data Loss Email Hacking Key Companies: Hold Security iboss network security Key Products: Key Industries: |  | ||
| Hold Security has identified a Russian cyber gang now in possession of what it says is the largest cache of stolen data ever The gang amassed over 4.5 billion records, mostly consisting of stolen credentials. 1.2 billion appear to be unique, belonging to over half a billion email addresses. To get such an impressive number of credentials, the CyberVors - the name with which the gang has been dubbed by Hold Security, 'vor' meaning 'thief' in Russian - robbed over 420,000 web and FTP sites. Simon Eappariello, SVP EMIEA, iboss network security, comments: "The 'Attack of the CyberVors' can be likened to something out of a science fiction film. The scale is unprecedented, equivalent to the size of the EU population in email traffic being hacked. The era of companies being held to ransom by a cyber cartel needs to end. Add to this, we need to change how we protect networks and confidential data at the very core. The shift in security of our most trusted brands and websites needs to happen on a large scale, if we are going to see a shift in the protection of the Internet." | |||
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