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Exclusive: Elite hackers target WHO as coronavirus cyberattacks spike
By Raphael Satter, Jack Stubbs, Christopher Bing
WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - Elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier this month, sources told Reuters, part of what a senior agency official said was a more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks.
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Urbelis said he picked up on the activity around March 13, when a group of hackers he’d been following activated a malicious site mimicking the WHO’s internal email system.
“I realized quite quickly that this was a live attack on the World Health Organization in the midst of a pandemic,” he said. LINK
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Heh, I wonder why this, and now? Weird.
By Raphael Satter, Jack Stubbs, Christopher Bing
WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - Elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier this month, sources told Reuters, part of what a senior agency official said was a more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks.
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Urbelis said he picked up on the activity around March 13, when a group of hackers he’d been following activated a malicious site mimicking the WHO’s internal email system.
“I realized quite quickly that this was a live attack on the World Health Organization in the midst of a pandemic,” he said. LINK
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Heh, I wonder why this, and now? Weird.