On the occasion of the World Password Day, which will be held this Sunday, the industrial cyber security center of Gipuzkoa, Ziur, has warned in a statement that the fracture of this coding is “one of the most used attack vectors by cyber criminals, because it works very well.”
The Three most popular passwords In the Spanish state – 123456, 123456789 and 12345678 – which were used nearly 50,000 times in 2024, they are deciphered in just a second, according to the company specialized in cyber security Nordpass.
On the occasion of World password daywhich is being celebrated this Sunday, the Gipuzkoa Industrial Cyber Cature Center, Ziur, has warned in a statement that the breaking of this coding “is one of the most used attack vectors by the cyber criminalsBecause it works very well. “
Many attacks start with a “password fracture by brute force, which is a way to restore important tests, all possible combinations until we find that some access allows. This is one of the most important ways of the bad systems to our systems,” warns the director of Ziur, María Penilla.
The most commonly used passwords in 2024 are 123456, used on 27 374 occasions; followed by 123456789, written 14 385 times; and 12345678, 7811 times chosen.
They are all deciphered in less than a second, such as the fifth, the sixth, seventh, the eighth, the novena and the tenth of the ranking -Qwerty123, 12345, QWERTY1, 1234567890, password and 1234567 -.
These ten passwords were used a total of 81 611 times in 2024, according to the NordPass report.
Source: EITB
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