Troy Hunt

JANUARY 19, 2023

When I first built Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), my mantra was to "do good things after bad things happen" And arguably, it has, largely by enabling individuals and organisations to learn of their own personal exposure in breaches. Think about Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana (bear with me, I'm actually going somewhere with this!)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned pwned , containing a message that attributes itself to Keksec. The Enemybot botnet borrows the code from the Gafgyt bot and re-used some codes from the infamous Mirai botnet. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The nonstop intensity of these attacks is vividly illustrated by the fact that malicious bot communications now account for one-third of total Internet traffic. A bot is a computing nodule with a small bit of coding that causes it to obey instructions from a command and control server. Bots arise two ways.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned pwned , containing a message that attributes itself to Keksec. The Enemybot botnet borrows the code from the Gafgyt bot and re-used some codes from the infamous Mirai botnet. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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IT Governance

MAY 2, 2024

We subsequently updated this to 1,495,127 records, as confirmed by Have I Been Pwned. Scraping our services and self-botting are violations of our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines”, a Discord spokesperson told The Register. “In We discuss both events in more detail below. million licences/records.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 24, 2017

It also had to be something that other people could use to achieve that objective which brings me to the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) API. The scope covers both the API to search for breached accounts and the Pwned Passwords either by API or querying the downloadable password hashes.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 19, 2023

It's an itch I just haven't had enough time to scratch properly in recent times and I really hope Pwned or Bot makes up for that. I hope you enjoy this week's update and all the conversation surrounding it.

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