Friday, 24 March, 2023

Red Cross claims state-sponsored' hackers took advantage of unpatched vulnerability

<p>State-sponsored hackers were most certainly behind the recent cyberattack on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which exposed the personal information of over 515,000 &quot;extremely vulnerable&quot; persons. The initial incursion, as per the ICRC, occurred on November 9, 2021, two months before the attack was revealed on January 18, 2022. Its inquiry found that the invasion was a &quot;very sophisticated&quot; planned attack, which used a piece of code on its systems.</p>