Pacific Northwest National Laboratory detected a cyber attack–actually two of them–against its tech infrastructure in July. The lab’s CIO, Jerry Johnson, last week provided a detailed accounting of the cyber attacks. Johnson described how intruders took advantage of a vulnerability in one of the lab’s public-facing web servers to plant a “drive-by” exploit on the PCs of site visitors. For weeks, the hackers then surreptitiously scouted PNNL’s network from the compromised workstations.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/exec-share-lessons-learned-from-recent-cyberattack