![]() The post Brute force tool iDict could hit Apple iCloud users again appeared first on IT Security Guru. Indeed, without this piece of information, an attacker can’t hack into your account without also trying to guess your email address (also through a dictionary attack).” “This attack also shows the importance of carefully choosing a username (which in the case of iCloud is an email address) and not making it public. iDict runs on the following operating systems: Windows. It was initially added to our database on. The latest version of iDict is 1.0, released on. The ‘exploit’ is a failure to notice the brute force attack and therefore failure to prevent it. iDict is a Shareware software in the category Miscellaneous developed by Stanley2004. “Apple, just like many other companies does typically detect this type of abuse and locks down the particular account being probed. ![]() “This technique is known as a brute force dictionary attack can only work if the service it is trying to abuse does not detect and block repeated and failed login attempts,” he said. ![]() Jerome Segura, senior security researcher at Malwarebytes, said that the tool is made of a few php files and a large text file containing hundreds of thousands of passwords and works by loading the scripts on to a local web server from where they are able to perform unlimited login attempts using the list of passwords. iDict is the a hacking tool that was published on GitHub and that can break into any iCloud account running an Apple ID Dictionary attack.
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