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The Austria’s largest ISP Data breached by Hacker

A1 telecom has the news report that it takes a total of 6 Months to kick the hackers out of the network.

According to the source, it was found that A1 Telekom, the largest internet service provider in Austria Which can admit to a security breach this week which whistleblower’s exposed.

The company admitted to suffering from the malware infection in November 2019 as the A1 security team detected a month later. The main issue is to remove the infection which is more problematic than it was at the initial anticipation.

It all from December 2019 to may 2020 where the security team had done all their jobs to take the malware operators in attempts which can remove all the hidden backdoor components which kick out the intruders.

A1 which has disclosed the nature of the malware which didn’t say if the intruders who are financially focused are a cybercrime gang.

When some bloggers came in contact with the Austrian ISP they discussed the malware which only infected the computers on its office network which consist of more than 15,000 workstations, 12,000 servers, and thousands of applications.

The threat actor wants to tool manual control of the malware and attempted to expand the foothold on the few systems to check the company’s entire network. The company security expert also said that the attackers are able to manage or compromised some database and even ran database queries in order to learn the companies internal network

With the talk with the Austrian press,” A1 which has a complex of its internal network which helped to prevent the threat actor from affecting the other systems and this happens because the thousands of the databases and their relationship are by no means for an outsider to understand.

The A1 mentioned to heise that the serious compromise that the lasted more than six months which can be attackers did not get the hands-on the sensitive customer data.according to the claims it was coming out with the queries of location, phone number and the other customer data for the certain private A1 customers

From the company, it was assured that the password of 8,000+ employees has changed the password and all access keys of the servers.

 

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Bipin Choudharyhttps://vednam.com
Bipin has been a passionate blogger for several years. He is a Cyber Security Enthusiast, Security Blogger, Technical Writer. He is always eager to know everything about the latest technology development and advancement. Author @ Vednam

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