They are much less known to the general public than ransomware.
Yet their proliferation in the cybercriminal ecosystem makes them a growing and very insidious threat.
Called "infostealers", this malware is designed to steal valuable information stored in an infected computer's or smartphone's internet browser in seconds, exfiltrate it to servers and uninstall itself without a trace.
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This type of software targets cookies, passwords and stored credit cards, crypto wallets, as well as installed software for credentials,” says Quentin Bourgue, cyber threat analyst
at Sekoia.
To simplify your life in the face of the quantity of online digital services requiring you to remember username/password pairs, or to fill in fields with the same information, it is practical and very tempting to use…
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