An attacker claiming to be ISIS took control of the official email account of the Saudi Embassy in the Netherlands in August, 2014 and sent emails to more than a dozen embassies at The Hague demanding $50 million for ISIS, or they would blow up a major diplomatic reception, documents seen by CSO reveal.
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The attack compromised the Saudi embassy's non-classified computer network. The attackers deployed a garden-variety rootkit on the workstation of the ambassador’s secretary and took over the embassy's official email account.
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