A devastating cyberattack 'the world isn't ready for'
IDT's global CIO has been sounding alarm bells about a strike that may still be invisibly affecting victims worldwide
Newark, New Jersey
THERE have been times over the past two months when Golan Ben-Oni has felt like a voice in the wilderness.
On April 29, someone hit his employer, IDT Corp, with two cyberweapons that had been stolen from the National Security Agency (NSA). Mr Ben-Oni, the global chief information officer at IDT, was able to fend them off, but the attack left him distraught.
In 22 years of dealing with hackers of every sort, he had never seen anything like it. Who was behind it? How did they evade all of his defences? How many others had been attacked but did not know it?
Since then, Mr Ben-Oni has been sounding alarm bells, calling anyone who will listen at the White House, the FBI, the New Jersey attorney general's office and the top cybersecurity companies…
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