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mfcorey1

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Fri Jun 26, 2020, 06:53 AM Jun 2020

Russian Criminal Group Finds New Target: Americans Working at Home


A Russian ransomware group whose leaders were indicted by the Justice Department in December is retaliating against the U.S. government, many of America’s largest companies and a major news organization, identifying employees working from home during the pandemic and attempting to get inside their networks with malware intended to cripple their operations.

Sophisticated new attacks by the hacking group — which the Treasury Department claims has at times worked for Russian intelligence — were identified in recent days by Symantec Corporation, a division of Broadcom, one of the many firms that monitors corporate and government networks.

n an urgent warning issued Thursday night, the company reported that Russian hackers had exploited the sudden change in American work habits to inject code into corporate networks with a speed and breadth not previously witnessed.

Ransomware allows the hackers to demand that companies pay millions to have access to their own data restored.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-criminal-group-finds-new-target-americans-working-at-home/ar-BB15YE0W?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
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Russian Criminal Group Finds New Target: Americans Working at Home (Original Post) mfcorey1 Jun 2020 OP
Not really related to hacking ItsjustMe Jun 2020 #1

ItsjustMe

(11,166 posts)
1. Not really related to hacking
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 08:15 AM
Jun 2020

But I have noticed recently that a huge number of Russian women have started camming on several webcam model websites. Just yesterday I saw one Russian model with Trump painted on her belly. Some of the models seem to be on drugs, and others look really depressed. I also get the Impression that some of the models do not wish to be there.

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