As if the hacker attack that brought down the systems of the Ministry of Health this Friday (10) and stopped ConnectSUS was not enough, other 9 federal government agencies had problems with other invasions.
According to preliminary findings by the Federal Police, the hackers managed to access the network of a telephone company that provides internet services for the government.
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According to the newspaper O Globo, a school linked to the Ministry of Economy, the Federal Highway Police Department, the National Water Agency (ANA), the National Land Transport Agency (ANTT), Embratur, Funpresp, were attacked. Federal Institute of Paraná and Federal Institute of Piauí.
It is not yet known what caused the systems to open up, but the investigation by the PF points to a flaw in the DNS, the Domain Name system. It is DNS that provides the linking of a website’s IP address to its name.
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