Sentence examples for captured credentials from inspiring English sources
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.
In significant numbers of cases, apps have been hacked and uploaded to third-party stores or Google Play either to capture credentials from users, or to operate maliciously, or to defraud the app's creator by removing adware elements.
Since then, the Russian hackers have been able to capture credentials on a mass scale using botnets — networks of zombie computers that have been infected with a computer virus — to do their bidding.
It appears that NotPetya finds a host via hacked software updates and then spreads by capturing administrator credentials from a computer's RAM.
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.
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As a final ploy they sent the agents an email that appeared to be from Facebook directing them all to reset their passwords — if they clicked that link it would have captured the agents' Facebook credentials and allowed the hackers to seize or spy on their accounts.
Fiked can impersonate a VPN gateway's IKE responder in order to capture XAUTH login credentials; it doesn't currently do the client part of full MitM.
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".
