The biggest hacking and hacking that occurred in 2017

The biggest hacking and hacking that occurred in 2017

The biggest hacking and hacking that occurred in 2017

With the end of 2017 and the entry of a new year, it can be said that the general summary of the past year in terms of security and electronic protection witnessed a large number of breakthroughs and spread many very dangerous viruses in a large group of countries in the world, and this year appeared a lot of modern malware and Spyware and leaks are also ransom which has infected a lot of computers around the world.
    In this article we will present you the biggest security and piracy disasters that occurred in 2017.

⦁ ransom attacks

In May of 2017, a new type of virus, a type of ransomware, appeared, causing the virus to spread panic and caused great losses to many companies and institutions in more than 150 countries of the world, and these attacks is a malicious software is exploiting A security vulnerability in the Windows system and encrypts all the files on your device and ask you for ransom, which is to pay money in the amount of $ 300 to be decrypted from you, as these attacks led to huge losses to many institutions and companies in some countries of the world.

⦁ Break the American HBO and leaking Game of thrones:

In the summer, the owner of the American HBO company lived a series of known game Alrush where he lived a real horror after hackers managed to penetrate all the servers of the company, where the theft of episodes that were not displayed from the series and leaked on the Internet and also a set of data which are internal emails Of the company and financial and other documents.

⦁ Google Play Store and endless malware:

This year, a lot of cautionary articles were written about some of the malicious apps that appeared in the Google Play store, and the store has seen a lot of difficult times this year despite Google's attempts to protect it from hackers who exploit it to spread malicious software, Many of these applications have been able to reach millions of users worldwide.

⦁ Wikileaks Vault 7:

On March 7, 2017, WikiLeaks published a database of 8761 documents that it said had been stolen by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which contained extensive documentation of many of the spying and piracy tools used by the agency. Some serious security vulnerabilities in many Windows systems including Mac, Android and Windows, and it has the ability to convert some smart TVs to spy devices and this is for the benefit of the agency.

⦁ Breakthrough of the presidential Macron campaign:

In May of this year and in the French presidential elections where the campaign of French presidential candidate Emanuel McCron announced that they had undergone a major electronic penetration. This process is coordinated and organized and many internal documents were leaked. This is a few hours before the choice between the middle candidate and his extreme rightist rival, The researchers confirmed that the piracy was linked to the Russian government Fancy Bear and that it was targeting the Macaron campaign.

⦁ The leaking of 198 million American voters:

It is not unusual for us all to hear about the penetration of a collection of voter data anywhere in the world. On June 19, 2017, researcher Chris Vickere announced a very serious discovery. He discovered that a database of publicly available information contained 198 million American voters, This hacking is not considered harmful, but it poses a major threat to cybersecurity and all institutions and individuals.