State-sponsored espionage group Whitefly behind major Singapore cyberattack

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State-sponsored espionage group Whitefly behind major Singapore cyberattack

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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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