The North Korean Cyber army, Lazarus has run in the past year, a worldwide hacker attack on private enterprises and public institutions and the Swiss financial centre to be targeted. The reports of the American computer security company McAfee.
The attack of Kim’s hackers were using E-Mails, which were disguised as a letter of application. They contained a Link to the Online-storage service Dropbox, in which, allegedly, the application dossier was. Who clicked on the Link installed a malicious Software called “Rising Sun”.
from scouting a System and the network, and transmits information about documents, user name, network configuration, and System settings to an external Server, which is also controlled by denHackern. McAfee calls the attack “Operation sharp shooter” (sniper), and evaluated him as a spy action.
What is the Swiss companies affected by the hacker attack, remains unclear. From the Sunday newspaper attributed to banks and insurance companies have denied an attack or wanted to relate to attacks for security reasons, in principle, no position to hackers.
Federal security checks with company
in any case, the hacker-led attack to an Intervention of the Federal government. The Reporting and analysis centre, Melani stand with multiple companies to check whether they were infected with the harmful Software. According to the Deputy head of Max, Klaus sent Melani the companies concerned certain information by which you could determine whether your systems were infected by the malicious Software.
With the company to which the contact is made, and how this information is look carefully, don’t want Klaus to run for safety reasons. Like the Melani-semi-annual report shows, the intelligence service of the Federal government with the attack. You have found “so far, no traces” of infections in the potentially affected firms in Switzerland. For further information, do not want to grant a spokeswoman.
87 companies computer is infected
In the first report on the “Operation Sharpshooter” said McAfee was still very vague about the possible perpetrators of the attack. In a second report, the company was sure, however, that the notorious hacker group Lazarus is behind it. This is in accordance with the controlled several security company of North Korea and for a whole series of devastating cyber attacks – including the slump in the corporate network of Sony in the year 2014.
According to McAfee has been installed the malicious Software in the world on the computers of 87 companies. First and foremost, the hackers took action against companies and authorities in the United States. Are affected but also organisations in several European countries, South America, the Middle East, India, Australia, and Japan. According to the security company, the attack was directed against the English companies or offices where English is spoken.
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(Sunday newspaper)
Created: 04.05.2019, 22:05 Uhr
