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Liad Mordekovitz and Ophir Harpaz uncovered a cyberattack that targeted several organizations and compromised servers to mine crypto or get data, says Israel Hayom.
Approximately 2,000 companies were attacked and had their servers as a launching pad to carry out attacks on more organizations. Since the attacks were decentralized, it made them harder to trace. The primary targets of the cyberattack were largely commercial and institutional servers within the media, tourism, health, and education industries, in India, Vietnam, and the United States.
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