Sentences with phrase «by cyber criminals who»

Spain's government said on Friday a large number of companies, including telecommunications giant Telefonica, had been attacked by cyber criminals who infected computers with ransomware.

They are typically used by nation states for espionage and sabotage, not by cyber criminals who tend to use widely known bugs for their attacks.

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The ransomware strain, known as WannaCry (or WanaCrypt0r and WCry and WCrypt), was deployed by unknown cyber criminals who used an exploit allegedly written by the NSA.

The unit is devoted to stopping the most dangerous criminals and extremists, led by The Laughing Man (Riley) who will stop at nothing to destroy Hanka's advancements in cyber technology.