"Ukrainian Police Arrest Suspected Brute-Force Account Hijackers"
"Ukrainian Police Arrest Suspected Brute-Force Account Hijackers"
Ukrainian cyber police recently arrested three men suspected of hijacking the accounts of over 100 million internet users. The trio, aged between 20 and 40, were arrested by police in the country’s Kharkiv region under the guidance of the regional prosecutor’s office. The police said that the trio were operating as part of a cybercrime group and used brute-force techniques to hijack victims’ email and Instagram accounts that were protected by easy-to-guess passwords.