Last year, hackers Attacked the legendary car Jaguar Land RoverOne of the UK’s largest employers. hack production stopped for months And made a dent in the country’s economy. The damage was so severe that the British government decided to grant bail The company had to pay £1.5 billion (about $2 billion), and it is estimated that the hack cost the British economy $2.5 billion.
For months there was only speculation as to who did it. Now, citing people close to the investigation, New York Times report The hackers behind the breach were Russian, though it’s still unclear whether they were working directly for Vladimir Putin’s government, just criminals, or something in between, like criminals working with the government’s tacit approval.
According to the Times report, Microsoft had been tracking the Russian hacking group and had alerted JLR to information about the hacker’s identity. However the sources also said that the FBI, Britain’s National Crime Agency and the National Cyber Security Centre, Google’s Mandiant unit and Palo Alto Networks all worked on the investigation.
In a rare, but not unprecedented event in the world of cybersecurity, it turned out that the Russian hacking group was not the only one that broke into some of the JPL networks. According to the Times, a Jordanian hacker known to Ray had also broken into it.
