National Rifle Association of the United States (NRA)

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2021: Hacker attack

On Wednesday, October 26, 2021, a group of hackers known as Grief announced that it had hacked the US National Rifle Association (NRA) and published documents threatening to publish even more if they were not paid an unspecified amount.

According to NBC, of the 13 published files posted on Grief's darknet website, most of the stolen documents relate to "national grants" funded from the budget of the rifle association, but also included the W-9 form and the minutes of the internal September teleconference.

It is assumed that the attackers seized the files from the NRA using ransomware, a malware designed to block the victim's computers until the victim pays a ransom.

Hackers attacked the US National Rifle Association and began to disclose secret data

The association declined to comment.

The NRA does not discuss issues related to its physical or electronic security, the association's Twitter page says.

The association noted that it was taking "extraordinary measures to protect information about its members, sponsors and activities."

It is assumed that Grief is a new incarnation of the Evil Corp group, against which the United States took active action. Participants in this hacker association in Washington are associated with Russia. A cybercrime organization that was sanctioned by the United States at the end of 2019 after it stole about $100 million from 300 banks in 40 countries. In 2020, according to Western media, Evil Corp. attacked the services of Garmin. For the opportunity to restore work, the company paid a ransom of $10 million.

Such incidents ransomware are wreaking havoc internationally in a number of different industries, from the largest fuel pipeline in the United States to the national service. In health care Ireland early October, the White House held a virtual summit on ransomware with like-minded countries, with the exception of. Russia^[1]

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