the Company "Kaspersky Lab" came on the trail of cybergraphic that at least since 2005 steals confidential data from companies around the world. Then the attackers threatened the resale information is required to conclude with them the contract to provide consulting services for IT security. The grouping has received the name of Poseidon.

Read more...

the Company "Kaspersky Lab" came on the trail of cybergraphic that at least since 2005 steals confidential data from companies around the world. Then the attackers threatened the resale information is required to conclude with them the contract to provide consulting services for IT security. The grouping has received the name of Poseidon.

the victims of the attacks are financial, telecommunications, industrial and energy companies, government agencies, media, PR agencies and even of catering services, whose clients are top managers of corporations stated on the website of "Kaspersky Lab".

as the main language the group uses Brazilian Portuguese. Have already suffered at least 35 organizations in Russia, Kazakhstan, USA, France, UAE and India affected by, and Brazil. Special interest abusers to internal corporate networks based on domains.

For attacks used malware signed with fake digital certificates. More often it penetrates into the system through phishing emails with RTF and. DOC attachments that usually come in the form of a notification from HR services. Once in the system, it collects a large amount of confidential data, including financial. Attackers use them to blackmail, forcing victims to cooperate, or resell them to third parties.

"We found a number of command servers Poseidon in the infrastructure of Internet service providers serving the Maritime court, — said Dmitry Bestuzhev, head of Latin American research center of "Kaspersky Lab". — To conceal their activity, attackers used a number of clever tools, including malware detected by us with a very short life cycle".

See also:

the
• Reader Onliner.by disagree: for gamers PC much more profitable consoles
the
• In Israel demonstrated a robotic boat to hunt submarines
the
• Apple was accused of wanting to "heat up" on the iPhone repair