cyber attack on the Federal Chancellery? A virus scanner discovered the spy software Regin on a computer.
D he spyware Regin is a According to media report has been discovered on a computer at the Federal Chancellery. A Head of Unit of the European policy department have taken a document on a USB stick with private home, told the Bild newspaper without giving details of sources. There she continued to work on her personal laptop to the document and brought back the memory device to the Chancellery. When the woman put this in their service laptop, hit the virus scanner for Regin alarm.
Regin since November 2014 known
The existence of Regin was late November through IT -Sicherheitsfirmen made public. The software is particularly difficult to detect. Media reports they brought to the US monitoring service NSA and its British partner GCHQ in combination. The software spreads from infected computers in several steps and is trimmed out long to remain undetected. The hidden acting Trojan program can make according to security researchers, among other recordings from the screen, steal passwords, monitor traffic and recover deleted files for the attacker. ( Using material from dpa )
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