{"id":59701,"date":"2018-10-17T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=59701"},"modified":"2018-10-17T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:43:10","slug":"new-york-countys-government-breached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/new-york-countys-government-breached\/","title":{"rendered":"New York County&#8217;s Government Breached After RDP Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"krttext\">Otsego County government, located in New York, suffered a security breach when hackers infiltrated systems by exploiting remote desktop servers<\/h4>\n<p class=\"krttext\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/New-York-County-Cyberattack-Prompts-State-CIRT-Response.html\">GovTech<\/a>, international hackers used a remote desktop server, located in an employee&#8217;s home, to access the county&#8217;s networks.\u00a0 From there, hackers utilized all of the county&#8217;s resources to mine for crypto-currency, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/2018\/02\/14\/crypto-mining-next-major-cyber-threat\/\">crypto-jacking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The issue was first identified in late September when the Otsego County systems were running incredibly slow.\u00a0 After an investigation, it was determined the issue was within the CPU usage.\u00a0 County officials contacted their software provider and appropriate adjustments were made which were believed to resolve the issue.\u00a0 All continued to run as it should, until Monday, October 15, 2018.\u00a0 It was then servers began populating alerts of a potential virus.\u00a0 In a few short hours, the IT staff was able to shut down the networks and stop the hackers&#8217; malicious activity.<\/p>\n<p>Since the attack, the Otsego County website has been put back online.\u00a0 However, all remote connections from employee homes remain\u00a0disabled.\u00a0 County officials have stated they\u00a0are working 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