Coordinated cyberattacks launched from Europe and China breached computers at firms and government agencies worldwide in the past 18 months, The Wall Street Journal reported....
"More than 75,000 computer systems at nearly 2,500 companies in the United States and around the world have been hacked in what appears to be one of the largest and most sophisticated attacks by cyber criminals discovered to date," The Washington Post adds....
Workers at companies were tricked into visiting websites or opening email attachments that promised to clean viruses from computers but instead infected machines.
link: Massive cyber attack breached 75,000 PCs around the world | Raw Story
[Emphasis emphatically mine.]
This is not a hacker story, this is a really, really bad security training story. Also a really, really bad security policy story. Sheesh.
Kiddo, I can understand if Auntie Maud falls for a trick like this but if you have computers in your company you should at least configure them so only IT guys can install software and teach people at least not to click on those damn "clean viruses from your computer" links. Is that really so difficult to comprehend?
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