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Monday, December 29, 2014
The Federal Chancellery of the virus scanner sounds an alarm: On the server computer a Head of Unit dangerous spyware is detected. The Trojan “Regin” should obviously read sensitive data. He came with a USB stick.
The Federal Chancellery is apparently a victim of espionage attack. Was on the computer a few weeks ago, the Head of Unit spyware “Regin” was discovered, reports “image”, citing safety circuits. Accordingly, the Trojans came via a USB memory stick by the private laptop the Head of Unit of the Department of European policy on their service computer, where he was noticed by a virus scanner.
According to the report which had close associate of Chancellor Angela Merkel worked on a speech manuscript, which she took home after work and further processed there on their own laptop. Then they have the document again stored on your private USB stick and thus returned back to their service laptop. When the virus scanner sounded the alarm, it was found that the USB stick was contaminated, as it was said. A review of all high-security laptops at the chancellery but disclosed no other viruses.
More aboutThe IT security firm Symantec had the end of November first reported on the highly complex Trojan “Regin”. Thus, they may rely on infected Convert screenshots to control the mouse pointer, steal passwords, monitor traffic and restore deleted files. According to the US news website “The Intercept” is “Regin” used since 2008 in order to steal information from gover nments, companies and research institutes. The development of the malware British intelligence agency GCHQ and the US NSA had been involved.
Source: n-tv.de
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