{"id":17452,"date":"2020-01-09T08:48:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elteni.com\/?p=17452"},"modified":"2020-01-09T08:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:48:36","slug":"cftc-issues-alerts-and-expects-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elteni.com\/insights\/?p=17452","title":{"rendered":"CFTC issues alerts and expects responses!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In December 2019, the U.S. government issued indictments against two hackers who were allegedly involved in a multiyear effort to penetrate the systems of several IT Vendors and Managed Services Providers (MSPs). The attack known today as the \u201cCloud Hopper Mega Hack\u201d was first noticed in 2016, as indicated by the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.
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\nThe hackers were able to compromise systems used by the MSPs to not only gain deeper access to their networks, but to also gain access to different client networks. It is suspected that these hackers stole a wide range of sensitive data. It is also believed that as many as 12 different service providers have been compromised; some of the names include Fujitsu, Tata Consultancy Services, NTT Data, Dimension Data, Computer Sciences Corp. and DXC Technology.<\/p>\n

In response to the recently published article by the Wall Street Journal, cyber threat alerts were issued to member firms by regulators from the commodities and futures market. The National Futures Association (NFA) sent a blast email to all NFA members firms (on behalf of the CFTC), with the alerts attached, requiring member firms to provide information regarding relationships they potentially have with any of the affected providers.<\/p>\n

The following guidelines were provided to member firms:<\/p>\n