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Mars Rover Code Used For Cyber-Espionage Malware

Posted by timothy on from the shoulders-of-giants-feet-of-scum dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Two open-source libraries used in the Mars Rover software have been integrated in the source code of a malware family (nicknamed Rover) used as part of a cyber-espionage campaign against the Indian government (Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan). The two libraries are OpenCV and OpenAL, two libraries for processing image and audio information. As such, the Rover malware can take screenshots, record video and audio.

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  1. Re:I wish you could uncheck the 'story' article ta by jbmartin6 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At first I thought all this complaining was a bunch of nonsense and that it was a bit of an interesting story. Then I realized that I had misread the summary. This wasn't code that was developed for the Mars rover, it was code that just happened to also be used in the Mars rover. Interest gone, complaining agreed with.

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