[vc_row][vc_column][vc_paragraph text=”The country’s prime minister Scott Morrison reported that last month governmental and private entities of Australia suffered from the activity of cyber criminals, and such attacks were becoming more often.“][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_heading title=”Australian institutions is being targeted by hackers ” size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_paragraph text=”Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has published a detailed report on attacks describing them as “most powerful and well-coordinated cyber targeting against Australian institutions ever seen by the Government”.”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_paragraph text=”According to ACSC, criminals used several initial access factors. The most frequent way is through vulnerabilities of a remote execution of code in non-patched Telerik UI versions.”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_paragraph text=”Although Telerik UI accelerates the process of web-dosigning, and it is vulnerable to CVE-2019-18935. This is what is used by hackers for attacking systems.”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_paragraph text=”In the past the vulnerability was actuvely used by fraudsters for installing malware software. This May a hacking group known as Blue Mockingbird took this opportunity to infect thousands of systems and install XMRig, a popular tool for mining Monero.”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
