The Latest Wave of Cyberattacks On the West Is Coming From the Middle East

Posted by Unknown on Monday June 2, 2014 @04:05PM from the no-more-bits-for-oil dept.

Daniel_Stuckey (2647775) writes "A hacker group from the Middle East known as Molerats attacked a wide range of major public sector organizations over April and May, including the BBC and a smattering of European governments, researchers revealed today. The latest attacks, which sought to establish espionage operations on targets' digital infrastructure, took place between 29 April and 27 May, according to security technology vendor FireEye. The Molerats' actions have added weight to concerns around growing cyber capability stemming from the Middle East. Yet researchers are somewhat perplexed as to the motivation of the perpetrators, whose targets included both Israel and Palestine, as well as Turkey, Slovenia, Macedonia, New Zealand and Latvia. The hackers also went after government bodies in the U.S. and the UK."

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and it comes to this by ruir · 2014-06-02 16:57 · Score: 1, Offtopic

slashadvertisment and now political propaganda...give us a break.
Re:Let me be the first to say... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-06-02 21:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What, Canada is in on this too? What about Iceland?
Last time I checked, Canada was in America. Right above the US, you can check it too.