Oak Ridge National Lab halts email after sophisticated cyber attack over the weekend

WHNT ^ | 04/19/11 | AP

[TennesseeGirl]

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — The Oak Ridge National Laboratory hopes to restore limited email on Tuesday after a cyber attack over the weekend.

Laboratory Director Thom Mason says officials shut down electronic access to the lab Friday night after a highly sophisticated cyber attack, known as Advanced Persistent Threat, according to The Knoxville News Sentinel. Closing access ensured that no data was extracted from ORNL computers.

[TennesseeGirl]

"There is not yet a patch issued that wards off this virus."

[Nervous Tick]

"There is not yet a patch issued that wards off this virus."

Advanced Persistent Threat is not a virus.

[rarestia]

Not hard to figure out what MX host they’re running if the proper ports are open. An old-fashioned brute-force on some idiot employee accounts, and Voila!