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Decade-Old Espionage Malware Found Targeting Government Computers 69

alancronin writes "Researchers have unearthed a decade-long espionage operation that used the popular TeamViewer remote-access program and proprietary malware to target high-level political and industrial figures in Eastern Europe. TeamSpy, as the shadow group has been dubbed, collected encryption keys and documents marked as 'secret' from a variety of high-level targets, according to a report published Wednesday by Hungary-based CrySyS Lab. Targets included a Russia-based Embassy for an undisclosed country belonging to both NATO and the European Union, an industrial manufacturer also located in Russia, multiple research and educational organizations in France and Belgium, and an electronics company located in Iran. CrySyS learned of the attacks after Hungary's National Security Authority disclosed intelligence that TeamSpy had hit an unnamed 'Hungarian high-profile governmental victim.'"
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Decade-Old Espionage Malware Found Targeting Government Computers

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  • Re:decade long op!? (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 21, 2013 @07:04AM (#43232749)

    the 'other' operaitng system crashes often enough for inexplicable reasons that no one suspects malware as the cause any longer)

    - would like to know what OS is this, cause my windows 7 install is rock-solid since I installed it on 2011...

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