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Operation Shady RAT by McAfee – You are compromised

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I think its a biggest cyber attack known. A single country (name not revealed but we can guess) has been watching on the networks of 76 organizations since last 5 years. Security researchers from McAfee have released a 14 pages report  revealing the biggest cyber attack in the world


This investigation was started in 2006 under the vice president of threat research of McAfee. They have released a about this opration with details the cyber attacks recorded.

McAfee believes that a single nation is behind it but didn’t give any name. But After reading the line, i know you are also thinking about the 1 nation china. 
According to the report, The shortest time a targeted organization remained compromised by the actor behind Shady RAT was one month and the longest was 28 months, the Olympic Committee of an Asian country. SOme other long term compromised include a South Korean government agency (27 months), a U.S. federal government agency (25 months), a U.S. satellite communications company (25 months), a Southern California county government (24 months) and the Hong Kong office of a U.S. news organization (21 months).

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