A long list is of biggest ever series of cyber attacks has been created by the security experts includes UN,various governments and major tech companies in every part of the world.
Major Government sinclude US,Taiwan,India,South Korea, Vietnam and Canada, ASEAN countries, international olympic body IOC; world anti doping body and high tech companies even defense contractors, told byMacAfee ,a major Security solution provider.
In case of UN security breach hacker went unnoticed for full two years in 2008,hacking into UN secretariat computers in Geneva.
Longest attacks includes 28 month attack on Olympic Committee of an Asian nation and shortest having one month period overall.
MacAfee has dubbed attacks as "Operation Shady RAT(Remote Access Tool used to access remote computers )" starting in mid 2006.
It said that it is believed to be a sate driven attacks but didn't name though evidence suggesting pointing China.
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