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'Madi' Cyber Espionage Malware Hits Middle East Targets
DavidGilbert99 writes "Following the discovery of the highly-complex Flame virus in May, two security companies (Seculert and Kaspersky Lab) have uncovered a new cyber-espionage threat against the Middle East. Madi, or Madhi, is an information-stealing trojan which is technically a lot simpler than Flame or Stuxnet but is specifically targeting people in critical infrastructure companies, financial services and government embassies, which are mainly located in Iran, Israel and Afghanistan. The Madi creators use social engineering techniques to spread, embedding the malware in various documents including text files and PowerPoint presentations. It is unclear if the malware is state-sponsored or not, but it has already stolen several gigabytes of information and is still active."
Given that the spear-phishing targets are mostly in Iran, I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is probably not the work of some 15 year old playing around or russia organized crime...
Do Kaspersky get to name them? Being that they are seemingly the only security company in the world capable of detecting viruses written by Israel and paid for by US tax dollars... ahem sorry by anarchists.