In the new reality dictated by the spread of the virus COVID-19, online leave not only art-рынок and art-мир, but art-преступники. No wonder cybersecurity experts urged to exercise the utmost vigilance.

To messages the media, last week's hacker attack suffered by the famous architectural office of Zaha Hadid. (Zaha Hadid Architects ZHA) Attackers managed to remotely access the server that stored confidential internal company information, to steal files and infect the rest of the special virus. For the return of access to this information, they demanded a ransom from the leaders of the Bureau. However, judging by the fact that on April 21, representatives ZHA went to the police of London and hired a team of libertarianists, to negotiate with the criminals they fail to plan.

Commenting on the publication Architects' Journal Bureau representative said, "We immediately began work to ensure the security of our network and reported the incident to the authorities... All of our 348 professionals in a pandemic working from home, I urge everyone to be particularly attentive to issues of cybersecurity, especially given the existence of criminals willing to take advantage of the situation".

the ransom Demand for access to information is quite common in the world of cybercrime practice. The most massive crime of this order was attack virus-вымогателя WannaCry in 2017. However, the art-мира such attacks had not previously dealt with.

However, the art-рынок already come to the attention of cyber criminals. Earlier this year, was it is known that hackers managed to intercept the £2.4 million that had gone into the payment landscape by John constable.

the Material was prepared by Maria Kuznetsova, AI

Source: architectsjournal.co.uk