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State-sponsored espionage group Whitefly behind major Singapore cyberattack

By Angela Moon

Mar 7 2019 6:39AM

Health database attack pinned on smaller group by flyscreen vendor.

State-sponsored espionage group Whitefly behind major Singapore cyberattack

The worst cyberattack in Singapore's history, in which the personal information of about 1.5 million people including the prime minister was stolen from a health database last year, was the work of a state-sponsored espionage group called Whitefly, according to a report by Symantec Corp on ...

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