Red Cross attributes hack to nation-state actor

The International Committee of the Red Cross has concluded that a nation-state hacker was behind a cyberattack on its servers discovered last month. A forensic analysis of the attack revealed the use of tools designed specifically to go after ICRC servers, the organization said Wednesday. “This was a sophisticated attack — a criminal act — breaching sensitive humanitarian data,” ICRC Director-General Robert Mardini said. “We know that the attack was targeted because the attackers created code designed solely for execution on the concerned ICRC servers, a technique we believe was designed to shield the hackers’ activities from detection and subsequent forensic investigations.” Separate from Mardini’s statement, the organization released a summary of the technical findings by an unnamed “specialist cyber security company.” The forensic report does not attribute the attack to any specific advanced persistent threat (APT) group, and ICRC declined to speculate on the culprit. “[M]ost of the malicious […]

The post Red Cross attributes hack to nation-state actor appeared first on CyberScoop.

Continue reading Red Cross attributes hack to nation-state actor