The existence of a malicious program called "Red October", a vigorous virus with unprecedented spread was revealed by Kaspersky Lab January 14: the virus has infiltrated the computer networks of diplomatic, governmental and scientific organizations of Central Asia, Europe and North America where he managed to collect various sensitive data and information. Thus, more than 60 countries, including France, Switzerland, Germany, the US, Australia and the United Arab Emirates .... were affected by the virus, which began to spread, it five years ago and is believed to be still active.
The operation seems to be designed to gather classified information and geopolitical sensitive data through abusing hundreds of victims, through targeted phishing also called "spearphishing."
in addition to traditional attacks to desktop computers, the virus chip is indeed able to steal data on smartphones, USB drives (including deleted documents of these keys), email databases and local FTP servers, Kaspersky said. One of the modules of the system even allows cybercriminals to infect a machine again if another of their modules is detected and destroyed by virus
is thought to have been developed by an international organization. "In recent months we have identified hundreds of infections worldwide," Kaspersky's researchers. Thirty-five of them have been registered in Russia and twenty-one in Kazakhstan. For Kasperky Lab, Chinese hackers may be the cause of the exploitation of the vulnerability and malware were developed by my Russian-speaking hackers.
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The VPN servers in many different places and you can connect easily. These servers allow you to hide your IP address and other personal information to remain secret, no matter how you are connected (open public Wi-Fi, cyber cafes ...).
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