• Millions of people use password managers. They make accessing online services and bank accounts easy and simplify credit card payments.
  • Many providers promise absolute security – the data is said to be so encrypted that even the providers themselves cannot access it.
  • However, researchers from ETH Zurich have shown that it is possible for hackers to view and even change passwords.
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[–] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

From what I scanned, there was no reason given on why they only attacked cloud based providers.

My guess is that these are paid ones and thus have a 'market share', easier to attack etc.

If you attack a 'keepass' password the attack vector is more crypto / memory based as far as my limited knowledge goes and not some funky inbetween attack.

Also, if you attack a cloud base provides, you will most likely have multiple victims per breach / exploit, whilst offline are targeted and thus not so interesting in most cases unless we're talking about a person of interest

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