Tuesday, January 15, 2013

More State Sponsored Hacking - Red Dawn


We've reached the point that this should inspire a yawn, but I'm still surprised to hear about another persistent long-term information warfare effort being discovered.

In this case, for at least 5 years somebody has been compromising diplomatic and government computers in a variety of countries - stealing classified documents the whole time.

http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/785/The_Red_October_Campaign_An_Advanced_Cyber_Espionage_Network_Targeting_Diplomatic_and_Government_Agencies#page_top

This is still being researched, so we've yet to learn the full extent of this attack ...


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