Avira honeypot discovers the most insecure password combination

guest · Sep 19, 2019

Avira honeypot discovers the most insecure password combination
A blank password is worse than a poor one
September 19, 2019
https://www.techradar.com/news/avira-honeypot-discovers-the-most-insecure-password

While searching for new smart device threats an Avira honeypot has discovered a password even more insecure than “admin” or “12345”.

“The most commonly used credential is blank, which means that the attackers just enter an empty username and password. This is even more common than admin,” explained Avira threat analyst Hamidreza Ebtehaj in a blog post.
In this case, credentials are a two-part combination of the username and password hackers enter into the company's smart device honeypot while attacking it. Attacks with blank or empty credential slots made up 25.6 percent of all credentials entered and vastly outnumber the other top username and password combinations.
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Blank credentials even exceeded other default IoT credentials such as “admin/QWestModem” and admin/airlive” (24%) and the collection of general default credentials (23.4%) such as “admin/admin”, “support/support” and “root/root”.
Avira's research also found that the top credential pairs were “root/xc3511” and “default/S2fGqNFs” as they belong to two internet connected web cams which are available under a number of different names.
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