Over 4 / 5 of the world's leading media organizations have been targeting attacks hacker behind which government agencies are hiding, according to a study by two security engineers Google.
Shane Hadley and Morgan Marquis Bouar presented the Results της δουλειάς τους στη συνδιάσκεψη Black Hat Asia 2014 στη Σιγκαπούρη. Όπως δείχνει η research, journalists are a very frequent target of government hackers.
In particular, 21 from 25 leading news organizations in the world seems to have been targeted. Attacks came from hackers who either worked for governments or supported them.
"If you are a journalist or journalistic organization, we will see state targeting, and we see it happening regardless of region, all over the world, where the targets are and where they come from," Hadley told Reuters.
Οι δύο ερευνητές δεν αποκάλυψαν λεπτομέρειες σχετικά με το πώς η Google παρακολουθεί αυτές τις δραστηριότητες, αλλά σημείωσαν ότι η εταιρεία «παρακολουθεί τους κρατικούς φορείς που επιτίθενται στους users of ".
Several US news media reported attacks against them in the past year, and Forbes, the Financial Times and the NY Times have all been attacked by the Syrian Electronic Army, which supports President Assad's status. Also, Hadley added that Chinese hackers recently got access to a large western news agency, which he did not name, through a false questionnaire sent to staff.
According to Marquis Bouar, although these attacks are nothing new, research shows that attacks on news organizations and journalists that go unreported are far more than are reported. As persignalno, these organizations seem to be taking longer than other businesses to take action to address the phenomenon. "A lot of news organizations are now waking up," he argued, adding that smaller media outlets, citizen journalists and bloggers are also being targeted.
