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Report: Russian electronic attacks targeted the summit of US and Korean presidents


Mon 25 Jun 2018 | 08:15 PM
Mohamed Wadie

A US company specializing in application security and services has revealed dramatic details of Russian electronic attacks on the Singapore summit between the US and North Korean presidents.

 

The F5 Networks said in a statement Monday that it is no secret that Russia has launched a barrage of coordinated electronic attacks against the United States, where a lot of sanctions against Russian officials and businessmen since the presidential election in 2016 and he ordered.

 

The company said that the US Computer Emergency Response Team issued a warning in April regarding Russia's relentless efforts to access routers for small offices and homes, warning of widespread espionage.

 

The company said in its report, that 88% of the malicious data traffic was originated in Russia and targeted VoIP phones such as those in many hotels and Internet devices things on 12 June 2018.

 

The attacks were mainly exploratory operations - looking for weak systems - issued from a single Russian IP address "188.246.234.60", followed by actual attacks from both Russia and Brazil, aimed at transmitting communications in clear text, attacks targeting Internet objects for espionage purposes Communications and data collection, as well as malicious attacks and attackers trying to access and access to secure phones or perhaps servers for VOIP.