It may be a new year, but the hacks, scams, and dangerous people lurking online haven’t gone anywhere.Just a day before the ball dropped, the United States Treasury Department said it had been hacked. Officials believe the attackers are an as-yet-unidentified Advanced Persistent Threat group linked to China’s government that exploited flaws in remote tech support software made by BeyondTrust to carry out what the Treasury Department described as a “major” breach. The company told the Treasury on December 8 that the attackers stole an authentication key, which ultimately allowed…
