“The front door to a web app is a valid user name and password and it is eye-opening to learn the number of credential pairs available on the dark web,” Kim DeCarlis, chief marketing officer at web application solutions security provider PerimeterX Inc., told SiliconANGLE. Multifactor authentication is also recommended where account providers offer it, to confirm identity. “Criminals have an endless list of breached credentials they can try, but adding to this problem is weak passwords which mean many accounts can be guessed using automated tools in just seconds.”ĭigital Shadows recommends that everyone should at the very least use a password manager to make passwords more complex so that users do not need to remember them. “We will move to a ‘passwordless’ future, but for now the issue of breached credentials is out of control,” said Chirs Morgan, senior cyber threat intelligence analyst at Digital Shadows. Adding two special characters extends the possible hacking time to two days and four hours. The researchers found that adding a “special character” such as # or ) to a basic 10-character password adds around 90 minutes to the amount of time an attack would take to crack a password.
The report was not all bad news, however. About a half-percentage point of all passwords were found to be “123456.” Keyboard combinations including “qwerty” or 1q2w3e” were commonly used.Īccording to the Digital Shadows researchers, 49 of the top 50 passwords could be easily cracked in under one second via easy-to-use tools commonly available on criminal forums, often free or offered at a minimal cost. The top 50 most common passwords found in the dark web data included the password of “password” and easy-to-guess numbers. To the surprise of next to no one, the report found that people are still, even in 2022, using easy-to-guess passwords. That’s a 65% increase from two years ago and is the equivalent of nearly four credentials for every person on the planet. A new report from threat intelligence startup Digital Shadows Ltd. has found that 24 billion stolen and breached usernames and passwords are available on the dark web, the shady corner of the internet where illicit goods and services are sold.
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