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Cyberespionage For Everyone
Mephistophocles writes "A chilling article by Darkreading's Kelly Jackson Higgins describes how the growing accessibility of hacking tools like RATs (Remote Access Trojans) have made cyber-espionage possible for more than just those financially backed by large nation-states, and speculates on what the implications of this may be: 'Researchers at Norman Security today revealed that they recently analyzed malware used in phishing emails targeting Israeli and Palestinian targets and found that attackers used malware based on the widely available Xtreme RAT crimeware kit. The attacks, which first hit Palestinian targets, this year began going after Israeli targets, including Israeli law enforcement agencies and embassies around the world. Norman says the same attacker is behind the attacks because the attacks use the same command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure, as well as the same phony digital certificates. This attack campaign just scratches the surface of the breadth and spread of these types of attacks around the world as more players have been turning to cyberspying. "We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg," says Einar Oftedal, deputy CTO at Norman.'"
Did everyone already forget freely available rats like Sub7, BO and NetBus that used to be around in the late 90ies?
So, rather than celebrate the possibility of having transparency for all (it's not government spying when everyone is doing it to the government in return) ... Norman Security is reporting on the emergence of script kiddies?
- Nec Impar Pluribus, or so I'm told.
You mean like Sub7 and Netbus, which were readily available in the late 90s?
Dude. This was news before Slashdot existed.
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