Discovered large scale electronic espionage - Newsnow

researchers Kaspersky, revealed that the last eight years was underway large scale electronic spying through which stolen information from 40 countries in which it operates and Greece.

Over 350 targets affected by this the “campaign”, including government agencies, research centers, universities, military agencies, embassies, nuclear facilities, oil companies, telecommunications and nanotechnology.

theft of information via a malware named “NetTraveler “and designed to steal sensitive data, record keystrokes and extract various Office files and PDF.

From Kaspersky calculate that the team behind the NetTraveler numbering about 50 people, most of whom have as their native language Chinese.

The worst affected countries are Mongolia, India and Russia, while the list of victims includes our country.

The first samples of malware dating from 2005, but it is estimated that the action began in 2004.

Some of the victims NetTraveler affected by the Red October was discovered last October, and with a similar method operated since 2007 extracting information from government and private organizations and companies. Tromaktiko