
A Russian national accused of developing the NLBrute brute-force hacking tool has made his first court appearance this week in Florida over accusations that he used the tool to spawn a criminal empire. Dariy Pankov, also known as "dpxaker," created the NLBrute malware that cracked the Windows credentials of improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) systems through the brute-force technique of throwing massive numbers of password guesses at them, according to the US Department of Justice.
Link: Suspected Russian NLBrute malware boss extradited to US
via http://www.theregister.com
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