ollowing the news regarding emails from top officials at the National Republican Congressional Committee being hacked during the midterms, Brian Vecci, Technical Evangelist at Varonis offers the following comment.
“The biggest thing that stood out to me was that the attack was detected by a cybersecurity vendor in April. How is it that we’re just hearing about this now? This raises questions for me as to whether our midterms were truly as secure as was reported.
The hack was of a senior GOP congressman, so it was extremely targeted – this wasn’t someone getting in randomly and happening on some valuable data, nor was it someone trying to steal huge amounts of open sensitive consumer data. They went after the inboxes of four key congressmen and the only reason to do that is if you think you can learn something that will help you specifically.