'Power, influence, notoriety': The hackers who struck MGM, Caesars

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'Power, influence, notoriety': The hackers who struck MGM, Caesars
About a year ago, the US security firm Palo Alto Networks began to hear from a flurry of companies that had been hacked in ways that weren't the norm for cybercriminals. Native English-speaking hackers would call up a target company’s IT helpdesk posing as an employee, and seek login ...

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