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by trollbridge 405 days ago
"Hope"? Generate random text, repeatedly type it in with AutoHotKey on honeypot machine, whatever rootkits are on there get garbled, useless data.
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These aren't local credentials, these are credentials from various third-party websites that made their way into stealer logs. Garbled or not, using your personal email address for both legitimate purposes (e.g. Google Calendar, as the article points out) and honeypots isn't the best idea.