Malware attacks that hunt for porn site login credentials on the rise

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If you own a paid account to a porn site, watch out for hackers. More PCs appear to be getting attacked with malware that’s designed to steal login credentials for the top adult video websites.

Last year, the attacks targeted more than 110,000 PCs across the world, double the number from 2017, according to antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab. On Thursday, it published a report on the malware threat based on anonymized customer data taken from the company’s antivirus products.

In total, the porn credential-hunting infection attempts reached 850,000 in 2018, or about triple the amount from the year before, the security firm said. Read more…

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