On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 at 11:41, Man-wai Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 2:07 AM Paul Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Something odd happened today at work. Not really Fox related. > > ... > > In the cache folder a file called passwords.txt contains 30,000 > > passwords which are clearly the most common passwords (123456, > > password, etc). It also contains words like 'motherfucker'. There are > > other files with common male/female names and TV shows. > > > > So apparently googlemaps.co.uk redirects you to google maps and > > attempts a dictionary attack on your Google account. Nice! > > You need a program to do a dictionary attack. I wonder whether the > program was written in Javascript, loaded when you load > googlemaps.co.uk ... Did your virus scanner sound an alert?
Must be Javascript based. No virus scanner alert as far as I know. Enable two factor authentication folks! I can't be sure it was a dictionary attack but I can't see why google would have a huge list of common passwords. -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/CADwx0++xL6gkrMTyxqnPPmCj=4slnoytpgasukqttu-ssmx...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
