Pentagon attackers stole 'amazing amount' of sensitive data - Calendar Of Updates

ペンタゴンをハックして機密情報を大量な量盗まれたとのこと。

A network intrusion at the Pentagon nine months ago resulted in the theft of an "amazing amount of data" that continues to pose a threat to national security, the CIO of the Defense Department said earlier this week.
"This was a very bad day," Dennis Clem, who is also CIO of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, said during a panel discussion at the Information Processing Interagency Conference. "We don't know when they'll use the information they stole, [which was] an amazing amount." The pilfered data included processes and procedures that will be valuable to US enemies, he said, according to an article by Government Executive.

2ヶ月近くシステムに既知のWindowsの脆弱性を使った複数のシステムにマルウエアがしかけられていて、攻撃者にメールで詐称されたメールを送っていたそうです。

Over the course of two months leading up to the attack, malicious code infiltrated several systems belonging to the Pentagon's network and culminated in an exploit of a known Microsoft Windows vulnerability, Clem said. That allowed attackers to send spoofed emails that appeared to come from Pentagon personnel in Clem's division.

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