11/18/2020
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Ways Hackers Steal Your Passwords
Keylogging is often a technique used in targeted attacks, in which the hacker either knows the victim (spouse, colleague, relative) or is particularly interested in the victim (corporate or nation state espionage).
What Is It?
Keyloggers record the strokes you type on the keyboard and can be a particularly effective means of obtaining credentials for things like online bank accounts, crypto wallets and other logins with secure forms.
How Does It Work?
Keylogging is more difficult to pull off than Credential Stuffing, Phishing and Password Spraying because it first requires access to, or compromise of, the victim’s machine with keylogging malware. That said, there are lots of publicly available post-exploitation kits that offer attackers off-the-shelf keyloggers, as well as commercial spyware tools supposedly for parental or employee monitoring.
How Can You Stay Safe?
You need to be running a good security solution that can detect keylogging infections and activity. This is one of the few kinds of password theft techniques where the strength or uniqueness of your password really makes no difference. What counts is how well your endpoint is secured against infection, and whether your security software can also detect malicious activity if the malware finds a way past its protection features.
