White House Attacked !!!

A simple Christmas Card e-mail from White House but it was an attack by

cyber criminals to steal sensitive data. The e-mail had a link which asked the recipients to click on it then it would download the Zues Malware. It is a known malware that was created years ago and used to steal passwords and other online credentials, primarily to get the Internet Banking Information .It has already been used to steal millions of dollars. In the case of White House it downloaded a second payload that is designed to steal documents from the recipient's computer thus, accessing Microsoft

Office and Excel files. Due to this the hackers were able to use the e-mail to collect sensitive law enforcement data but there is no proof that important data were stolen.

This e-mail raises the question on White House Cyber Security which is trying to increase their cyber security to the optimum level since Wikileaks

exposure of their sensitive data which showcased the world their truth.

Article posted by:Shipra Sahai