By Eduard Kovacs on March 04, 2021
A mysterious cybercrime group apparently driven by profit has been targeting industrial organizations in Europe, Asia and North America as part of an information theft campaign.
The campaign was detailed in September 2020 by cybersecurity firm Zscaler, which warned at the time that the hackers had been targeting oil and gas supply chain industries in the Middle East using the trojan known as AZORult.
These attacks are ongoing, according to DeNexus, a California-based provider of cyber risk modeling for industrial networks, which on Thursday published a report detailing this campaign, its evolution, and additional victims.
DeNexus reported seeing targets and victims in various countries, and noted that in addition to AZORult, the attackers have been spotted using information-stealing malware such as AgentTesla, Formbook, Masslogger and Matiex.
this is a world that is evolving faster than government. it s one of the reasons why the republican senator from colorado and i have tried to bring together everyone interested. there have been nine different hearings, nine different committees held 27 hearings. i think in terms of more vis-a-vis russia and i want to take a look at the bill that senator mccain introduced. we need to up our cyber game across the board not just in terms of government actions but for all of society. when we realize how many times we are hacked into in terms of intellectual property and personal information theft, we have to up our game. bret: senator warner, we appreciate your time for thanks for being here. special report continues after this break period bread we wilt obamacare in the first news
megyn: as president obama s nominee to be the country s new health czar calls for more openness with everyone s medical records, we are getting new information on an explosion of what is called medical i.d. theft. last year, there were more than 275,000 cases of medical information theft in the united states. the average cost of such fraud is over $12,000 to a person. by comparison, the average cost for all identity crime last year was less than half of that, around $4800. so once again more medical records are stored in electronic form, could fraud cases skyrocket? joining me now is lewis dicicio, director of the national health care antifraud association. thank you very much for being here. thank you for inviting me. megyn: the medical records