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Trend Micro researchers have discovered a new, massive cyber espionage campaign that has been hitting as many as 71 victims each day, includ...

Even though the majority of data breaches continue to be the result of financially motivated cybercriminal attacks, cyberespionage activities are also responsible for a significant number of data theft incidents, according to a report that will be...

Staatliche Industriespione aus Russland, China oder den USA schlagen gerne bei Geschäftsreisenden zu. Denn die liefern wertvolle Daten auf ihren Laptops oft frei Haus - zum Beispiel im Hotel.

Unité 61398 : groupe secret de l'armée chinoise dédié au cyberespionnage - Intrusion, Hacking et Pare-feu.

L'entreprise de sécurité américaine Mandiant a indiqué dans une étude qu'un groupe chinois spécialisé dans les cyberattaques, appelé APT1 (Advanced Persitant Threat) constituait un grand danger, car il disposait du soutien du gouvernement chinois.

« En cherchant à identifier l'organisation qui est derrière cette activité, nos recherches ont révélé que l'unité 61398 de l'Armée Populaire de Libération de Chine avait les mêmes missions, capacités et ressources que l'APT1 », précise le rapport. Il ajoute que « l'unité 61398 de l'armée est également située dans la même zone où l'activité de APT1 a été détectée ».

Elle se trouve dans un bâtiment de plus de 130 000 m⊃2; sur la route de Datong dans Gaoqiaozhen, une zone près de Pudong à Shanghai. La nature du travail de cette unité est considérée par la Chine comme un secret d'Etat, mais Mandiant estime qu'elle est à l'origine de multiples opérations de piratages contre des réseaux informatiques.

Hackers using a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) named Mirage have been engaged in a systematic cyber espionage campaign against a Canadian energy company, a large oil firm in the Philippines and several other entities since at least this April, Dell's...

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231596/Cyber_espionage_campaign_targets_energy_companies

Norman Shark uncovered a large and sophisticated cyber-attack infrastructure that appears to have originated from India.

The attacks, conducted by private threat actors over a period of three years and still ongoing, showed no evidence of state-sponsorship but the primary purpose of the global command-and-control network appears to be intelligence gathering from a combination of national security targets and private sector companies.

Security researchers have identified an ongoing cyber-espionage campaign that compromised 59 computers belonging to government organizations, research institutes, think tanks and private companies from 23 countries in the past 10 days.

Romanian security company BitDefender has traced the cyber-espionage malware

===> Info-stealing hackers operated under the radar for more than a year and a half!!! <===

Romanian security company BitDefender today said it has traced the cyber-espionage malware "MiniDuke" back to June 2011, more than a year and a half before the campaign was uncovered.

Director Robert Mueller tells Congress that police are 'increasingly unable' to bring criminals to justice because rapid advances in technology thwart surveillance. Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Politics and Law.

The FBI is renewing its request for new Internet surveillance laws, saying technological advances hinder surveillance and warning that companies should be required to build in backdoors for police.

An internal FBI strategy document from 2007 recently posted by Cryptome.org refers to "proposed amendments" to CALEA that would codify the authority of police to "process a subject's communications traffic, including IP/packet-based communications."

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57518265-38/fbi-renews-broad-internet-surveillance-push/