The Anti Public Combo List is a massive database of email addresses and password pairs that have been pieced together over the past several years from various unrelated breaches and data leaks.
What is the anti public combo list (APCL)?
The Anti Public Combo List is a massive database of email addresses and password pairs that have been pieced together over the past several years from various unrelated breaches and data leaks.
What is a combo list?
A combo list in the hacking and cracking world refers to a usually long text file, with the following formats: username:password. email:password. Whereas username, password, and email be the designated target's username, password, or email.
What is the anti-public list of email addresses?
“In December 2016, a huge list of email address and password pairs appeared in a “combo list” referred to as “Anti-Public”. The list contained 458 million unique email addresses, many with multiple different passwords hacked from various online systems.
Are “wildfruit2” and “dbworld” selling anti-public combo list accounts on dark web?
Now, it has emerged that in two different listings, two vendors going by the online handles of “wildfruit2” and “dbworld” are selling 457,962,538 accounts from anti-public combo list on a popular Dark Web marketplace. Both listings contain email addresses and clear text passwords of users around the world.
What is a combo list?
A combo list is a text file that contains a list of leaked usernames and passwords in a specific format. The passwords are usually obtained from different breaches and collectively stored within a file.
Is combo list safe?
These tools test stolen passwords against thousands of targeted websites and applications until there is a match. Combo lists are usually not that interesting from a security standpoint because they are full of duplicate records. In many cases, duplicates of duplicates of duplicates.Feb 6, 2019
What is an Antipublic?
antipublic (comparative more antipublic, superlative most antipublic) Opposing the public.
What is collection combo list?
A combo list is a text file containing a list of usernames/email addresses and passwords.Nov 1, 2021
What is email combo list?
Combo is short for combination, so combo lists are lists containing combinations of usernames/emails and passwords. They are used for bruteforce attacks. The benefit compared to separate username and password lists is that combo lists are expected to contain a higher likelihood of success.Jun 19, 2020
Who is Cit0day?
The now-defunct Cit0day.in was a data breach index website that collected previously hacked databases and advertised them in the cybercriminal community and on underground forums.
What is sensitive source?
Sensitive data is any information that is meant to be protected from unauthorized access. Sensitive data can include anything from personally identifiable information (PII), such as Social Security numbers, to banking information, to login credentials.
What is verifications IO breach?
A recent data breach of Verifications.io, a company that approves or verifies email addresses for third-parties, exposed 763 million consumer records. Verifications.io ensures third-parties' email marketing campaigns are being sent out to verified accounts, and not just fake emails.Mar 13, 2019
What is credential surfing?
Credential stuffing is a cyberattack method in which attackers use lists of compromised user credentials to breach into a system. The attack uses bots for automation and scale and is based on the assumption that many users reuse usernames and passwords across multiple services.
What are Combolists used for?
This has resulted in the rise of combolists as a service (CaaS), where cybercriminals use a subscription model to sell stolen credentials to other bad actors. Combolists containing stolen credentials have been around for a long time, but CaaS is a new way for cybercriminals to quickly and easily monetize stolen data.Dec 27, 2019
What is Pemiblanc?
About HackNotice and Pemiblanc HackNotice is a service that notices trends and patterns in publically available data so as to identify possible data breaches, leaks, hacks, and other data incidents on behalf of our clients.
Was my e-mail address or password included?
Check out our related article, How to Avoid Getting Hacked After Data Breaches, to find out whether your e-mail address or password has ended up in Collection #1 or any other major dumps or breaches.
How can I learn more?
For more about Collection #1, check out Troy Hunt’s article, The 773 Million Record “Collection #1” Data Breach.
About Joshua Long
Joshua Long ( @theJoshMeister ), Intego's Chief Security Analyst, is a renowned security researcher, writer, and public speaker. Josh has a master's degree in IT concentrating in Internet Security and has taken doctorate-level coursework in Information Security.