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Hackers use a Trojan to compromise more than 150 French Ministry of Finance computers.
The French Ministry of Finance was hit by an unprecedented cyber attack in December, with over 150 computers compromised, according to reports.
Hackers got their hands on documents related to the current French presidency of the G20 and international economic affairs, Paris Match reported.
Patrick Pailloux, the executive director of l’ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la Securite des Systemes d’Information), said it was the first time the French state had been targeted by an attack of this scale.
Cyberattack defences in place, PM says
Harper acknowledges 'growing' threats after 3 departments hacked
Prime Minister Stephen Harper assured Canadians on Thursday that the government does have a strategy in place to protect computer networks, following the revelation that at least three key departments had their systems compromised by hackers.
Harper would not comment specifically on unprecedented attacks that targeted the Finance Department, the Treasury Board, and Defence Research and Development Canada.
But he said at a press conference in Toronto that he recognized cybersecurity was "a growing issue of importance, not just in this country, but across the world."
Saturday's attacks on sites including South Korea's presidential office, the Foreign Ministry, the Defense Ministry, some financial institutions and U.S. Forces Korea followed two rounds Friday in which damage was also limited.
Lee said that 40 websites were originally targeted Friday, though only 29 came under actual attack. A total of 29 were targeted Saturday, he said.
The National Police Agency said the attacks originated from 30 servers in 18 foreign countries or territories including the United States, Israel, Russia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, India, Brazil and Iran.
Originally posted by JBA2848
Here is another country attacked. And they did not just come from China.
www.washingtonpost.com...
The National Police Agency said the attacks originated from 30 servers in 18 foreign countries or territories including the United States, Israel, Russia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, India, Brazil and Iran.
edit on 7-3-2011 by JBA2848 because: (no reason given)
According to the Korea Communications Commission, a total of 219 hard disks are reported to have been destroyed in the latest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack as of 1 p.m. yesterday. The number could rise in the coming days. Nonetheless, it is fewer than the 396 hard disks that were destroyed in 2009.
The KCC said the number of “zombie” PCs reported in the latest assault was 77,207, fewer than the 115,000 reported in 2009.
“As of Monday noon, we have discovered 98 overseas servers that were used to carry out the DDoS attack,” an official at the National Police Agency (NPA) Cyber Terror Response Center said. “The number could rise even more. First, we have sent official requests to law enforcement agencies of 35 nations, where the servers are located, to copy the servers’ hard disks.”
There are strikingly similarities in the attacks.
For starters, both attacks targeted high-profile government and corporate entities, and it remains unclear who is behind the assaults and why.
Originally posted by WilliamRikeronaSegway
i'd figure the "elite" would be in control of governments. why would they need to hack into computers to find out information like that that would be so freely available?
Originally posted by Dyax-
who else
china