One of the most damaging cyber attacks were discovered earlier this year by NetWitness. The cyber attacks apparently started in 2008 and were not discovered until this year. The northern Virginia security firm states that it is one on the largest and most sophisticated attacks to date.
The attacks were discovered until January of this year and more than 30 or so financial, energy, defense, technology, and media firms had been targeted, including those of Google.
These attacks, suspected of having been propagated by rouge internet hackers is said to have come close to the sophisticated cyber attacks of countries like Russia and China.
Such attacks give a rather somber testimony of the inability of firms around the world which were attacked and security had been compromised, that really are unable to protect themselves from internet hackers.
In this case, malware infected computer systems worldwide and had the ability to target any information the attackers wanted, including file-sharing sites for sensitive corporate documents, according to NetWitness.
Also among the affected included educational institutions, energy firms, financial companies and internet service providers.
Source: The Washington Post
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