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New "Sanny" Cyber-Espionage Attack Targets Russia

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

CowboyRobot writes "A new targeted attack campaign with apparent Korean ties has been stealing email and Facebook credentials and other user-profile information from Russian telecommunications, IT, and space research organizations. The attackers are grabbing email user accounts and passwords from Outlook, as well as information about the victims' email server."

8 comments

  1. Stealing Facebook Credentials? by Press2ToContinue · · Score: 1

    All your facebooks are belong to us....

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    Sent from my ENIAC
    1. Re:Stealing Facebook Credentials? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny

      All your facebooks are belong to us....

      In post-Soviet Russia, ... ah, screw it.

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      Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
    2. Re:Stealing Facebook Credentials? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ... Outlook Sees You!

  2. I can almost imagine by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

    WWIII starting over a hacked Outlook account.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  3. Which Korea did this? by Spy+Handler · · Score: 1

    the BEST KOREA!

    It couldn't have been South Korea, because they only use IE6 activeX controls for everything.

    1. Re:Which Korea did this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      the korea with internets

    2. Re:Which Korea did this? by flyingfsck · · Score: 1

      In South Korea only old people use IE6 Active X controls... Sorry, I could not resist the urge.

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      Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
  4. Echolong report by Seeteufel · · Score: 3, Informative
    From the Conclusions on the Echolong investitigation of the European Parliament:

    29. Urges the Commission and Member States to devise appropriate measures to promote, develop and manufacture European encryption technology and software and above all to support projects aimed at developing user-friendly open-source encryption software; 30. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote software projects whose source text is made public (open-source software), as this is the only way of guaranteeing that no backdoors are built into programmes; 31. Calls on the Commission to lay down a standard for the level of security of e-mail software packages, placing those packages whose source code has not been made public in the ‘least reliable’ category;

    If only Russian officials had listened.