Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Meet The Cyber Version Of 'Red October'


Meet Red October, The Newest Cyber Espionage Operation -- Killer Apps/Foreign Policy

Shocker! It looks like the Russians might be cyber spying on the countries that make up their former empire. IT security firm Kaspersky Lab just announced that it has found a new cyber espionage tool called Rocra.

The malware, active since 2007, targets mostly former USSR states and Eastern European countries, along with a limited number of diplomatic and government installations in Western Europe , North America and other places. It is designed to collect "geopolitical intelligence, credentials to access classified computer systems," and data from smartphones, routers, and even deleted info from removable disk drives as part of an espionage operation dubbed Red October (seriously), according to Kaspersky Lab's announcement.

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My Comment: What raised my eyebrows after reading this story is not the discovery of this new "Russian" computer virus, but that it was a Russian firm that discovered it. Clearly Russia's intellgience establishment dos not control evrything in Russia.


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