Recently, security experts have discovered the series of cyber attacks which have been happening without been noticed since the year 2006. The experts say that these attacks might have started early than that but so far the earliest attack to be detected is that of mid-2006. May be other attacks are undetected until now.
The security company which uncovered this believed that the attacks were done by a certain state or government and not a small group of hackers. Of course even for a person who is not very familiar with hacking but has a basic computer knowledge would agree with this. It’s so hard to believe that a small group could crack 72 organizations including the United States, South Korea and India without any support of a government to defend them.
The list of victims includes United States, South Korea, India, United Nations, Taiwan, Vietnam, Canada, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency.
"What is happening to all this data ... is still largely an open question. However, if even a fraction of it is used to build better competing products or beat a competitor at a key negotiation (due to having stolen the other team's playbook); the loss represents a massive economic threat."
"Even we were surprised by the enormous diversity of the victim organizations and were taken aback by the audacity of the perpetrators," McAfee's vice president of threat research, Dmitri Alperovitch, wrote in a 14-page report released on Wednesday.
So far the evidence points China to be the one involved on this.
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