A high-level cyber espionage campaign has successfully broken into computers and networks of government, diplomatic and scientific research organizations around the world for the last five years, according to a report from security software firm Kasperksy Labs.
Top 10 in Kaspersky’s list of most infected nations (those with more than 5 victims) are:
Russian Federation – 35 infections
Kazakhstan – 21
Azerbaijan – 15
India – 14
Afghanistan – 10
Armenia – 10
Iran – 7
Turkmenistan – 7
Ukraine – 6
United States – 6
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“The C&C infrastructure is actually a chain of servers working as proxies and hiding the location of the true-mothership-command and control server,” the report said.
The multi-functional framework used by the attackers also allow them to steal data from mobile phones, dump enterprise network equipment configuration, hijack files from removable disk drives, steal e-mail databases from Local Outlook storage or remote POP/MAP servers and get files from local network FTP servers.
For more information on Red October go to the Kaspersky Labs Securelist blogsite
