Two computers of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services were hit by malware attacks, which potentially breached the records of some of its patients.
A Trojan horse virus was found on the two computers on July 5 and July 8. Trojan malware is masked as legitimate software and are used by hackers as leverage into a network.
Cybercriminals use social engineering to dupe users intAlaska Department of Healtho loading and executing the malware.
