ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

Moskau/lngolstadt, 17. Februar 2015 Kaspersky Lab enttarnt die Cyberspionagegruppe „Desert Falcons“, die sich gegen verschiedene hochrangige Organisationen und Einzelpersonen im Nahen Osten richtet [1]. Damit konnten die IT-Sicherheitsexperten erstmals eine Gruppe von Cybersöldnern aus dem arabischen Raum enttarnen, die offenbar über das komplette Spektrum von Cyberspionagemitteln verfügt.

Die Gruppe startete ihre Aktivitäten bereits im Jahr 2011, seit dem Jahr 2013 werden Rechner infiziert. Den Experten von Kaspersky Lab zufolge erreichte die Kampagne ihren Höhepunkt zu Beginn des Jahres 2015 [2].

Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor and whistleblower, has leaked documents that claim the US National Security Agency (NSA) and UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have actively reverse engineered security and anti-virus software to obtain intelligence, according to a report by The Intercept.

The documents obtained reportedly highlight the Russian software security firm, Kaspersky Lab, as one of the main targets, with GCHQ reverse-engineering Kaspersky's anti-virus software looking for vulnerabilities that could be subverted.

The Intercept posted an NSA document titled "Project Camberdada" that lists at least 23 antivirus and security firms that were in that spy agency's sights -- none of the companies were of U.K. or U.S. origin, but there was more than one firm from the country in which Snowden now calls home.

Earlier this month, Eugene Kaspersky said in a blog post that his firm had recently discovered an advanced attack on its software. The security mogul said that his company was quite confident that there was a nation state behind the attack, but made it clear that he did not wish to attribute it.

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