Microsoft has allowed Russian hackers to spy on NATO and the EU
American
company engaged kiberrazvedkoy,
iSight Partners (Dallas)
announced the availability of information about the
that Russian hackers have exploited
bugs in Microsoft Windows and other
software to spy
for computer systems of NATO, the EU,
Ukrainian government and companies
energy and telecommunications
sectors.
True,
about what data fell into the hands
hackers do not know in iSight.
There are suspicions that the purpose of pests
were data about the Ukrainian crisis,
pouch, data
energy and telecommunications
sectors, content business correspondence
and dissemination of spyware files
further phishing.
Campaign
of cyber espionage is not finished yet and
It has been going on for more than five years. AT
iSight this project called
"Sandworms Team" because
in the program code used
hackers have found references to
sci-fi saga "Dune".
Behind
the years, hackers used a variety of
ways to achieve their goals. For example,
in August they began to exploit
vulnerabilities found in most
versions of Windows. Microsoft's problem
warned, and for a long time: time
the fact to fix the problem, it
It was enough. Today, on Tuesday,
October 14, will be made automatically
Windows Update cracked versions.
or
from the Russian government, nor from
NATO nor the EU, nor even from the Ukrainian
Government any official
comments were received. researchers
of iSight Partners suggested
the nationality of the attackers
linguistic features in the software
code and, in fact, the choice of objects
hacking.
"Objectives
certainly have to do with political
interests. We see a direct reference to
Russian origin of the threat "
- says head of department on finding espionage
iSight John Halkvist. Today
the company's customers will be sent a report
The team of sandworms.
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