Researchers discover advanced cyber-espionage malware

  Both Kaspersky and Symantec  have unearthed a new type of malware so advanced, they believe it could  have links to a country's intelligence agency. They're calling it  "Remsec," "Strider" (Aragorn's nickname in LOTR) and  "ProjectSauron," because it has several references to the Necromancer in  Tolkien's series. According to Symantec, it has been used for what  could be state-sponsored attacks to infiltrate 36 computers across at  least seven organizations around the world since 2011. Its targets  include several individuals in Russia, a Chinese airline, an unnamed  organization in Sweden and an embassy in Belgium. Kaspersky says you can  add various scientific research centers, military installations,  telecommunications companies and financial institutions to that list.


 

   ProjectSauron has been active since at least 2011, but it was only  unearthed recently because it was designed not to use patterns security  experts usually look for when hunting for malware. Kaspersky only  discovered its existence when it was asked by an unnamed government  organization to investigate something weird going on with its network  traffic.The malware can move across a network -- across even air gapped computers  that are supposed to be more secure than typical setups -- to siphon  passwords, cryptographic keys, IP addresses, configuration files, among  other data off computers. It then stores all those information in a USB  drive that Windows recognizes as an approved device. Both security  companies believe its development required the involvement of specialist  teams and that it costs millions of dollars to operate.They  didn't name a government in particular, but they noted that the malware  took cues from older tools used for state-sponsored attacks, including  Flamer that's been linked to Stuxnet in the past. As you might know, the  Stuxnet worm, widely believed to be the joint creation of the US and  Israel, infected Iran's nuclear program computers in the mid-2000s.



              Via:         Ars Technica
         Source:                 Symantec, Reuters, Kaspersky

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