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Hey Techknow Addicts,
So
Guys very Important News that in this crucial situation whole world is trying
to get out of COVID-19 and WHO (World Health Organization) is taking steps
regarding it.
And
at this moment the Elite Hackers tried to breach WHO’s (World Health
Organization) system and tried to get confidential data as you don’t know who are
Elite Hacker Check it here: Elite Hacker
Earlier
this month there were 2 or Greater cyberattacks were done that was mention by
the WHO Chief Information Security Officer Flavio Aggio. He also mentioned that
the attack was unsuccessful and also the identity of the hackers is still
anonymous.
The
first flagged to Reuters by Alexander Urbelis , cyber security expert and a
lawyer with the New York based Blackstone Law group which tracks
suspicious internet domain registration activity.
Alexander
said he notice the activity around March 13 2020 a group of hackers were following
malicious site mimicking in the internal email system of WHO.
Messages which were sent to email addresses maintained by the hackers went
unreturned.
When asked by Reuters about the incident, the WHO’s Aggio confirmed that
the site spotted by Urbelis had been used in an attempt to steal passwords from
multiple agency staffers.
“There has been a big increase in targeting of the WHO and other
cybersecurity incidents,” Aggio said in a telephone interview. “There are no
hard numbers, but such compromise attempts against us and the use of (WHO)
impersonations to target others have more than doubled.”
The WHO published an
alert last month - available here here -
warning that hackers are posing as the agency to steal money and sensitive
information from the public.
Credits: Reuters
Author: Param Dhagia
Thank You for your valuable time
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Cyber Security related stuff..!!!
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