{"id":1990,"date":"2014-11-24T07:33:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T12:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2014-11-24T07:33:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T12:33:07","slug":"sophisticated-state-sponsored-spying-tool-targeted-govts-infrastructure-for-years-rt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1990","title":{"rendered":"Sophisticated \u2018state-sponsored\u2019 spying tool targeted govts, infrastructure for years \u2014 RT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/208207-regin-malware-state-sponsored\/\">Sophisticated \u2018state-sponsored\u2019 spying tool targeted govts, infrastructure for years \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">A sophisticated malware dubbed Regin has been used to spy on governments, infrastructure operators and other high-profile targets, security company Symantec has revealed. It also targeted private individuals and businesses, particularly in Russia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">A back door-type Trojan displays a\u00a0<em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\u201cdegree of technical competence rarely seen,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Symantec\u00a0<a style=\"vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition-property: color, text-decoration; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.5s, 0.5s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial, initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial, initial; color: #044faa; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.symantec.com\/connect\/blogs\/regin-top-tier-espionage-tool-enables-stealthy-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">in a press release. The complexity of the virus enabled the intruder to create a framework for mass surveillance. Targets include private companies, government entities and research think tanks. Attacks on telecoms companies were allegedly carried out to gain access to calls being routed through their infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">The company believes that the Trojan was likely developed by a nation state as it took months, if not years to develop such a piece of software and cover up its tracks. Analyzing its further capabilities the company has drawn a conclusion that Regin could be one of the main cyber espionage tools used by the implicated nation state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">Almost a third of the confirmed infections were discovered in Russia with a further 24 percent in Saudi Arabia. Mexico, Ireland, India, Afghanistan, Iran, Belgium, Austria and Pakistan are also on the list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophisticated \u2018state-sponsored\u2019 spying tool targeted govts, infrastructure for years \u2014 RT News. A sophisticated malware dubbed Regin has been used to spy on governments, infrastructure operators and other high-profile targets, security company Symantec has revealed. It also targeted private individuals and businesses, particularly in Russia. A back door-type Trojan displays a\u00a0\u201cdegree of technical competence rarely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1404,1401,1402,746,765,1403],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-internet-security","tag-malware","tag-regin","tag-spying","tag-surveillance","tag-symantec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}