Kaspersky Lab's Cyber-Espionage Campaign
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kaspersky Lab researchers have recently announced the results of a joint investigation with Seculert, a Threat Detection company, regarding “Madi”, an active cyber-espionage campaign targeting victims in the Middle East. Kaspersky Lab and Seculert worked together to sinkhole the Madi Command & Control (C&C) servers to monitor the campaign. Kaspersky Lab and Seculert identified more than 800 victims located in Iran, Israel and select countries across the globe connecting to the C&Cs over the past eight months. In addition, examination of the malware identified an unusual amount of religious and political “distraction” documents and images that were dropped when the initial infection occurred. “While the malware and infrastructure is very basic compared to other similar projects, the Madi attackers have been able to conduct a sustained surveillance operation against high-profile victims. Perhaps, the...