Telenor executives targeted by major industrial espionage attack

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://news.techworld.com/security/3435778/telenor-executives-targeted-by-major-industrial-espionage-attack/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
18 March 2013

Norway’s national telecoms provider Telenor has been hit by a major case of 
industrial espionage with attackers stealing a sizable cache of files and 
emails from unnamed executives, local media have reported.

According to translated reports, the company’s 20-person security team became 
aware of suspicious traffic from the PCs of employees to external IP addresses 
last Friday, which turned out to be a major data theft that turned over files, 
emails and passwords.

The attacks were quickly rated as serious enough to be reported to the 
country’s Cyberforsvaret defence service as well as the national CERT to allow 
for a wider national alert.

What was stolen or which employees were hacked has not been revealed.

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