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An Israeli researcher has uncovered an organized cyber-attack infrastructure on institutions in Europe and the United States
Ofir Harpaz, a researcher at the Israeli cyber company Guardicore, unveiled an infrastructure that broke into more than 500 servers of large organizations, and took over them for mining cryptocurrencies
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Ophir Harpaz, a researcher at the Israeli cyber company Guardicore, uncovered an organized attack infrastructure that managed to break into more than 500 servers, including large universities, railway companies, organizations and companies in Europe and the US.
The attack, dubbed FritzFrog, was based on exploiting weak passwords. The attackers were sophisticated and left no trace on the damaged servers so that it was very difficult to identify.
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Ofir HarpazHarpaz discovered that the attackers had turned the systems they had taken over into a "peer network" that serves as a malicious force multiplier. They began using the servers they had taken over to mine cryptocurrencies, but this did not seem to be their main purpose, but rather to prepare the infrastructure of infected computers to schedule a much larger attack or sell the option to another entity. They also tried to break into government institutions in Europe and the US, but in this case their attempts failed.
Guardicore, founded by Dror Selai, Pavel Gurevitch and Ariel Zeitlin, develops comprehensive protection software for enterprise cloud and internal servers that works successfully in hundreds of financial, e-commerce and e-commerce companies. Education The company has raised $ 110 million and employs 190 people in Israel, the United States, Canada, Brazil, India, Mexico, Western Europe and Ukraine.
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