According to The Register, the CyberVor gang is using the 1.2 billion stockpile of compromised login credentials, but LA-based domain registrar and hosting firm Namecheap has warned that hackers have begun using the list to try to access its users’ accounts.
Namecheap said it had become aware of the ongoing assaults thanks to alerts from its intrusion detection systems of a “much higher than normal load against our login system [using] username and password data gathered from third party sites”. Most of the attempts are failing but some appear to be getting through, prompting Namecheap to suspend accounts it fears may have been compromised as well as blocking IP addresses associated with the attack, as explained in a support notice by the hosting firm.
