Operation Shady RAT- Biggest cyber attack revealed by McAfee
Security researchers from McAfee have released a report revealing the biggest cyber attack in which 76 organizations have been compromised during the past five years. in all compromised organizations, 49 are from US. This investigation was started in 2006 under the vice president of threat research of McAfee. They have released a 14 pages reportabout this operation with details the cyber attacks recorded. see the report and image below
McAfee believes that a single nation is behind it but didn't give any name. But After reading the line, i know you are also thinking about the 1 nation china.
According to the report, The shortest time a targeted organization remained compromised by the actor behind Shady RAT was one month and the longest was 28 months, the Olympic Committee of an Asian country. SOme other long term compromised include a South Korean government agency (27 months), a U.S. federal government agency (25 months), a U.S. satellite communications company (25 months), a Southern California county government (24 months) and the Hong Kong office of a U.S. news organization (21 months).
Security researchers from McAfee have released a report revealing the biggest cyber attack in which 76 organizations have been compromised during the past five years. in all compromised organizations, 49 are from US. This investigation was started in 2006 under the vice president of threat research of McAfee. They have released a 14 pages reportabout this operation with details the cyber attacks recorded. see the report and image below
McAfee believes that a single nation is behind it but didn't give any name. But After reading the line, i know you are also thinking about the 1 nation china.
According to the report, The shortest time a targeted organization remained compromised by the actor behind Shady RAT was one month and the longest was 28 months, the Olympic Committee of an Asian country. SOme other long term compromised include a South Korean government agency (27 months), a U.S. federal government agency (25 months), a U.S. satellite communications company (25 months), a Southern California county government (24 months) and the Hong Kong office of a U.S. news organization (21 months).
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