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, 2019
Veterans 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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