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Medium riskEncountered ViaSIGN-INS 4 July 2026
RegionOtagoNew Zealand

Russian botnets are looking for your weak passwords.

A coordinated credential-stuffing attempt from Russia has been detected targeting local organisation logins.

A high-volume sign-in attack has been detected targeting New Zealand businesses. Attackers are utilising automated botnets to test leaked credentials against corporate portals. This represents a significant risk to organisations where staff reuse passwords from personal accounts or have not enabled Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

Source: Decision1 Internal Intelligence

IP Intelligence

Signals about the attacker's network — abuse history, hosting provider, and the ISP's typical role. Bulletproof hosts and residential-proxy networks are the usual bad-actor infrastructure.

Abuse score100 / 100High abuse
ISPKom lan Ltd
Under attack
Microsoft 365
Source
Decision1