11 August 2011

US Govt Requests McAfee Briefing on #Hacker Report #shadyrat

In the fight to protect consumer information in the digital age, Murrieta's Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack, R-Palm Springs, is seeking more information about the McAfee, Inc.'s report titled "Revealed: Operation Shady RAT." 

The report, released Aug. 2, summarizes McAfee's findings regarding a widespread global hacking campaign taking place over the past five years.

Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee's vice president of threat research, identifies 71 compromised parties, including U.S. government agencies, the International Olympic Agency, United Nations, international trade organizations and others.

"I would like to caution you that what I have described here has been one specific operation conducted by a single actor/group," Alperovitch wrote in the report.

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