Fort Disco attacks passwords

How strong is your password? Cyber criminals are running a wide-ranging password-guessing attack against some of the most popular blogging and content managemen...

How strong is your password? Cyber criminals are running a wide-ranging password- guessing attack against some of the most popular blogging and content management systems on the net. The Fort Disco cracking campaign began in late May this year and is still going on. The UK based Register reports Four strains of Windows malware are associated with the campaign, each of which caused infected machines to phone home to a hard-coded command and control domain.

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