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Researchers discover new global cyber-espionage campaign
2013-02-27 21:03:46| InfoWorld: Top News
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.
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Mandiant report on Chinese cyberespionage used as bait in spear-phishing attacks
2013-02-22 16:46:48| InfoWorld: Top News
Attackers are using fake versions of a recently released report about a Chinese cyberespionage group as bait in new spear-phishing attacks that target Japanese and Chinese users. The report was released Tuesday by security firm Mandiant and documents in great detail the cyberespionage campaigns conducted since 2006 by a hacker group known as the Comment Crew against more than 100 companies and organizations from different industries.
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U.S. target of sustained cyber-espionage campaign
2013-02-11 16:15:28| CNET News.com
The country has been targeted by China, which is trying to infiltrate American business computers to find data for economic gain. [Read more]
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Java exploit used in Red October cyberespionage attacks, researchers say
2013-01-15 23:31:53| InfoWorld: Top News
The hundreds of government, military and research organizations targeted in a large-scale cyberespionage operation dubbed Red October were not only attacked using malicious Excel and Word documents as previously believed, but also by using Web-based Java exploits, according to researchers from Israeli IT security firm Seculert.
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