http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/iranian-hackers-used-visual-basic-malware-to-wipe-vegas-casinos-network/
By Sean Gallagher
Ars Technica
Dec 11, 2014
Stop us if this sounds familiar: a company executive does something that
makes a foreign government’s leadership upset. A few months later, hackers
break into the company’s network through a persistent cyber attack, and
plant malware that erases the contents of hard drives, shuts down e-mail
servers and phone systems, and brings operations to a screeching halt.
That’s not just what happened to Sony Pictures Entertainment in late
November—it’s also what happened to Las Vegas Sands Corp., owners of the
Sands, Venetian and Palazzo hotels and casinos in a cyber attack that
began last January. The attack and the damage it did were kept quiet by
the company until it was reported in a story by Bloomberg Businessweek
today.
Attempts to reach Las Vegas Sands Corp. have gone unanswered, and a
spokesperson for Dell SecureWorks—which was brought in to clean up the
mess afterward and determine its cause—declined to speak about the article
as it is the company’s policy not to discuss work done for a customer. But
according to Bloomberg’s sources, the Sands attack was undertaken by
“hacktivists” who were responding to a speech by Sands majority owner
Sheldon Adelson. The billionaire 52-percent owner of the Sands and Israeli
media mogul made an October 2013 appearance on a panel at the Manhattan
campus of Yeshiva University, where he called for a nuclear attack on Iran
to get the country to abandon its own nuclear program.
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