Stolen credentials found for about two million compromised accounts

(Phys.org) —Researchers have discovered a mountain-high trove of stolen credentials. Some two million compromised accounts were found on a Netherlands based server using a botnet controller, with the nickname "Pony." In a blog post on Tuesday coauthored by Trustwave SpiderLabs' security researchers, Daniel Chechik and Anat Fox Davidi, the researchers said that "one of the latest instances we've run into is larger than the last with stolen credentials for approximately two million compromised accounts." At some point, the two said, the source code for Pony was leaked. "With the source code of Pony leaked and in the wild, we continue to see new instances and forks of Pony 1.9."

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