{"id":1667209,"date":"2022-09-30T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T00:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1667209"},"modified":"2022-09-30T20:51:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T00:51:05","slug":"analysis-mexico-data-hack-exposes-government-cybersecurity-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-mexico-data-hack-exposes-government-cybersecurity-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis-Mexico data hack exposes government cybersecurity vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanalysis-mexico-data-hack-exposes-government-cybersecurity-vulnerability%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1667209&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Diego Or\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>MEXICO CITY \u2013     A major hack into classified government information in Mexico, including thousands of emails from the armed forces, exposed the country\u2019s vulnerability to cyberattacks due to under-investment and poor technological preparedness, experts said on Friday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed on Friday the Defense Ministry had suffered a hack that revealed details about his heart condition \u2013 a form of angina \u2013 as well as information on criminal figures, transcripts of communications, and the monitoring of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico. <\/p>\n<p>A group called \u201cGuacamaya\u201d \u2013 or \u201cmacaw\u201d in Spanish \u2013 claimed responsibility for the hack and said on its website it had accessed six terabytes of data.<\/p>\n<p>The size of the hack suggested prior planning, said Francisco Solano, an executive at IT services and consulting firm Logicalis.    <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis did not happen by chance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Solano and other analysts consulted by Reuters, the vulnerability exploited by the hackers stemmed from a weakness in a Microsoft server detected last year, known as ProxyShell.<\/p>\n<p>Although solutions to fix the problem were available, the government needed to carry out updates to implement them.    <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u00a0have the antidote, but nobody to apply it,\u201d Solano said, adding that there appeared to be a lack of resources to resolve the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, at his daily news conference, Lopez Obrador said that hackers had exploited a change in the military\u2019s IT systems, without giving further details. <\/p>\n<p>The armed forces did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Governments worldwide have been increasingly targeted by aggressive cyber crime in recent years and have been forced to increase investment and focus on cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p>In Latin America, Mexico ranks as the country most targeted by cyberattacks in public and private sectors combined, several studies have shown.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican oil company Pemex, National Lottery and National Transparency Platform have been hit by cyberattacks in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Although Mexico\u2019s government has steadily devoted more resources to cybersecurity, the investment is not enough compared to what is needed to ward off attacks, experts said.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers would have needed up to three days to copy the information, said Adolfo Grego, a forensic specialist, also raising questions over why the government did not act sooner.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Diego Or\u00e9; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/analysis-mexico-data-hack-exposes\/attachment\/file-photo-mexicos-president-lopez-obrador-attends-daily-news-conference\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9016E-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9016E-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diego Or\u00e9 MEXICO CITY \u2013 A major hack into classified government information in Mexico, including thousands of emails from the armed forces, exposed the country\u2019s vulnerability to cyberattacks due<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}