Qakbot botnet infrastructure suffers major takedown

The Qakbot botnet has suffered a major setback after its infrastructure was heavily disrupted by US and European law enforcement agencies. Operation DuckHunt, as it was codenamed, is possibly the largest US-led financial and technical disruption of a botnet infrastructure. Not only did the agenci...

Google Adds Password Checkup Feature to Chrome Browser

Google will soon alert Chrome browser users of weak or compromised passwords. The checks will be in real time as Chrome users visit a password protected website. Bad passwords will trigger a red dialogue box alerting users to take action to better protect their account. The move integrates a...

WhatBreach - OSINT Tool To Find Breached Emails And Databases

WhatBreach is a tool to search for breached emails and their corresponding database. It takes either a single email or a list of emails and searches them leveraging haveibeenpwned.com's API, from there if there are any breaches it will search for the query link on Dehashed pertaining to the...

Troy Hunt Looks to Sell Have I Been Pwned

Citing overwhelming demands on his time, Troy Hunt is looking for a buyer for his site, Have I Been Pwned HIBP. HIBP offers a free service for consumers wanting to know if their user names and passwords have been compromised in a data breach; it also offers commercial services that include alerts...

pwned - A command-line tool for querying the 'Have I been pwned?' service

A command-line tool for querying Troy Hunt 's Have I been pwned? service using the hibp Node.js module. Installation npm install pwned -g Usage Usage: pwned option | command Commands: ba options get all breaches for an account username or email address breaches options get all breaches in the...