Two million passwords exposed thanks to botnet and malware infected PCs

[Poke]

Not good..

Over two million passwords for Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others have been posted to the web after a botnet has infected thousands of machines and used a keylogger to obtain passwords.


http://www.neowin.net/news/two-million-passwords-exposed-thanks-to-botnet-and-malware-infected-pcs

 

[navychop]

So I could change my Twitter (unused) and LinkedIn PWs, but have no way of determining if my PC is infected and my efforts are for naught?

Huh?

 

[mike123abc]

The article lacked a lot of information...

 

[madmadworld]

December 4, 2013 -- 11:45 GMT (03:45 PST)
Demographically, the Netherlands seemed to be targeted the most, as 97 percent of the stolen credentials belong to users in the country -- followed by Thailand, Germany, Singapore, and Indonesia. The United States accounted for less than 2,000 stolen credentials.

http://www.zdnet.com/hacker-databas...ok-twitter-google-passwords-found-7000023922/


http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/12/look-what-i-found-moar-pony.html

 

[avg1joe]

Download malwarebyte anti-malware. Run a "quick scan". It doesn't hurt to check to see if your computer has any boogers.