Try to hacker attacks on over 50 companies in the energy and oil sector has been revealed in Norway. Now warns the Norwegian IT security authority for more attacks.
Norwegian IT Security Agency NSA (Nasjonal sikkerhetsmyndighet) revealed a week comprehensive attempt to hacker attacks. They should have been directed at over 50 companies in the energy and oil sector in Norway.
there are fears that many more businesses are threatened.
– About 300 businesses now receive alerts from us with concrete information where we ask them to look for specific things in their logs. It is the largest layoff that we’ve sent out, says Hans Christian Pretorius, Director of the NSA’s operational department to the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Industry.
NSM says the attacks made by employees opening attachments that are sent to them in email.
According to New Data Technology by data security experts with contacts in Norway, the move of targeted attacks exploiting a malicious spyware known under the name Havex, Energetic Bear or Crouching Yeti.
The perpetrators should have placed the program inside PDF files with a view to infect computers with Trojans. This has been possible through a vulnerability in Adobe Flash.
The program must have been active for at least four years. It is considered an advanced threat and may well sabotage, and retrieve information from computers. Main targets so far have been activities in high-tech industries, including machine companies. But also manufacturing, pharmaceutical and construction companies as well as companies in the education and IT sectors have been affected.
– There is a lot of data not be total lost of our members. There may be contracts, patents, trade secrets. It is about high-tech companies that are working on projects, and many of the companies are of course also listed and holds stock exchange sensitive information, says Maiken Ree, CIO in Norwegian branch organization “Norwegian oil and gas,” to today’s business world.
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