The theft of data and the consequent resale of the same on Dark Web it is a growing plague. We are talking about a real underground market, a danger not only for a question of privacy but also from the point of view of IT security.
Proton, a company already involved in the context of privacy protection, has announced a new and interesting tool useful in this sense. We are talking about Pass Monitora sort of Dark Web monitoring system that identifies the status of the passwords used by the user.
In case of detection, the instrument reports in real time the password theft or similar data, also providing feedback and information with respect to strength of passwords in addition to the possible absence of multi-factor authentication for certain user accounts. Pass Monitor can work in synergy with Proton Sentinel (another product from the same company), making the suite more complete and effective in the protection phase.
Proton, with Pass Monitor, offers a system to avoid real disasters with phishing attacks
According to what was stated by Son Nguyen of Proton, this new tool turns out to be “Developed to make security accessible to all“.
Furthermore, as specified by Nguyen himself, Pass Monitor is a tool that allows a proactive approach, useful for preparing users for more than probable attacks of this type phishing resulting from data theft. The purchase of real “packages” of credentials on clandestine marketin fact, making campaigns of this type, now an online habit, even more fearsome.
In this sense, the numbers speak quite clearly, with quite sensational cases also in our country. In fact, adopting Pass Monitor and paying greater attention to passwords and their protection is an excellent way to avoid unnecessary risks.