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Cybersecurity researchers running a sprawling information-stealer campaign collected credentials, autofill data, and system information that tied back to about 100,000 users with memberships to well-known cybercrime forums.<\/p>\n

Besides gathering identity, location, and IP address data associated with various cybercrime forum members<\/a>, the Hudson Rock research team also scraped passwords that had been saved as part of the autofill feature.<\/p>\n

Hudson Rock has a tool that measures the strength of breached passwords<\/a> and found cybercrime forums broadly maintain better password protection than many critical infrastructure networks. An analysis found the Dark Web forum<\/a> with the strongest overall user passwords was Breached.to, while the weakest passwords were found on Russian-language forum Rf-cheats.ru.<\/p>\n

“Overall, passwords from cybercrime forums are stronger than passwords used for Government websites,” the report said, “and exhibit fewer ‘very weak’ passwords than industries like the military.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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