How hackers struck super fund customers while they slept
The cyberattack that has robbed Australians of hundreds of thousands of dollars from superannuation accounts began with criminals attempting to access accounts in the dead of night.
The cyberattack that has robbed an unknown number of Australians of hundreds of thousands of dollars from their superannuation accounts began about a month ago, when the criminals tried to access millions of individual accounts armed with credentials that would let them in to a small percentage of them.
The attempts happened mostly in the dead of night, and relied on a subset of a branch of cyberattacks called brute force attacks, which is known as credential stuffing.
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