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Hackers target job-hunting service members, veterans with sham employment website
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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:03:02 +0000 (UTC)
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2019/10/10/hackers-target-job-hunting-service-members-veterans-with-sham-employment-website/ By Diana Stancy Correll MilitaryTimes.com October 10, 2019Veterans hunting for jobs may have thought "Hire Military Heroes" was just another jobs website that would help them find employment.
But in reality, the site prompted users to download an app containing malicious malware that would allow the attacker to access a plethora of information, according to cybersecurity researchers at Cisco Talos.
"The attacker retrieves information such as the date, time and drivers. The attacker can then see information on the system, the patch level, the number of processors, the network configuration, the hardware, firmware versions, the domain controller, the name of the admin, the list of the account, etc.," Cisco Talos said in a blog post in September about the malware.
"This is a significant amount of information relating to a machine and makes the attacker well-prepared to carry out additional attacks," Cisco Talos added.
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