Some of the backdoors captured credentials for virtual private networks (VPNs), which allow direct remote access to a network without having to rely on a single compromised computer.
Although Kevin's objective in the attack was to acquire access to a network sniffer, his ultimate objective was to use it on DEC's own internal network (called EasyNet) to capture authentication credentials to access DEC's engineering network on which the proprietary source code for DEC's Virtual Memory System (VMS) operating system was stored.
By doing so, it could allow the government to target Windows users by manipulating websites and capturing login credentials for email, social media sites, and other online services.
Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs' security strategist Richard Henderson tells TechCrunch that "As with many high-profile social media breaches in recent years, it's highly likely this attack was the result of a targeted spear phishing attack in order to capture social media credentials or deliver malware that provided remote access".
And to that point, over the past few years, Parchment's sole focus has been to solve the core infrastructure problem in education of capturing and exchanging credentials electronically.
"What Portadi had built was a clever heuristics-based engine that seamlessly and with very high accuracy detects a user's login activity and captures the user's credentials in the process.
We similarly, included years of education both as a continuous and a categorical variable (<12 y, 12 14 y, 15 17 y, and >17 y, intended to capture the effect of credentialing at high school and college).
The picture is thus presumably meant to capture how overwhelming and socially credentialed the forces against transwomen's rights seemed to be how much the cards were stacked in Bailey's favor.
By convincing a victim to visit a typo-squatting domain liked "LunkedIn.com" and capturing the login, password, and authentication code, the hacker can pass the credentials to the actual site and capture the session cookie.
The goal is to capture and exfiltrate sensitive data as user credentials or credit card information, steal money, change the appearance of the app or trick the user into unwanted actions.
