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 Americas 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.
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