Over 55,500 password stealers detected in the Philippines, says cybersecurity firm
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Kaspersky defined
password stealers as “a type of malware that steals account information.”
“In essence, it is similar to a banking Trojan, but instead of intercepting or substituting entered data, it usually steals information already stored on the computer: usernames and passwords saved in the browser, cookies, and other files that happen to be on the hard drive of the infected device,” it said.
In its new research released on May 24, the firm recorded a total of 55,597 password stealers in the Philippines during the first three months of the year, which was a 25% increase from the same period in 2020.
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Depending on what group of scientists you ask, 2020 was either tied or second only to 2016 as the warmest year on record. Measuring against a baseline of mean temperatures between 1951 to 1980, NASA concluded that the average global temperature of the planet was slightly warmer last year than in 2016. But the difference was so small that the agency said the two years are effectively tied for the warmest year on record. Meanwhile, the National Oceanic