40 countries around the world was attacked by cyber crime recently. The internet security company Kaspersky lab said that hackers has used a harmful program named “Nettraveller” on that attack. Last 4th of June a special team of members of that company released information about this matter.
The kaspersky lab informed that this type of attack was stared from 2004 by the name of “Cyberpionage Campaign” in the cyber world. This harmful program “Nettraveller” has already stolen 22 GB of important data from various companies around the world. This program normally spreads from email and Microsoft document. The file name is used to be a cyber security policy, important people’s travels and many other essential fake names to make fool. Government and nongovernment institute, High-Commissions, Oil and Gas industries and many other important organizations have been attacked by them. The recent attack by “Nettraveller” was targeted to NANO technology, Nuclear energy, Laser, Medicine and Communication departments.
The victim map shows that Bangladesh, USA, Canada, UK, Russia, Morocco, Belgium, Austria, Chile, Greece, Belgium, Ukraine, Lithonia, Belarus, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Mongolia, Iran, Turkey, India, Pakistan, South Korea, Thailand, Qatar, Kazakhstan and Jordan are attacked during that time by the program. The security agency Rapid-7 said that around 50 Chinese people were behind in hacking.