FSB thwarted a large-scale cyber attack on the Russian organizations. Malicious spyware found in the computers of public authorities and defense enterprises. Moreover, according to experts, the virus is written individually for each specific organization.
FSB revealed in the Russian segment of the Internet malware created, supposedly in the interests of foreign special services. The investigation revealed that the infection underwent computers of several Russian departments – Ministries (Defence, Economic Development, Labour and Social Welfare, Ministry of Emergency Situations), as well as objects of the nuclear industry and space industry, scientific and military institutions, defense industry enterprises. In total have been infected around 20 networks of organizations located in Russia.
A malicious program fell into computers through emails from trusted recipients. Then the program was implemented in infecting the host computer and through it unhindered control of the entire network, intercepting network traffic, listening, taking screenshots of the screen, including their own webcams and microphones on computers and mobile devices, recording audio and video files and transferring data to press keyboard. That is, in fact, over time, a spyware program becomes “manager” said the network.
Control by the FSB for the distribution and operation of malicious software is carried out with the end of 2015. The first study showed that the control centers operated in the territory of a foreign state. According to the FSB, when creating the attackers used a simple program LUA programming language. This fact is interesting because usually kibershpionskih programs such level that language find difficult – it is more typical for the industry of computer games
“This programming language developed in the early 1990s in Brazil As a result of programming convenience.. speed code execution and ease of learning the language at present it is widely used for the development of massively duplicated software in particular, is known for its application in the computer games industry (for example, the most massive game – World of Warcraft). “, – explained the employee response Center computer incident in government FSB Alexei Novikov organs.
It turns out, the LUA programming language widely used in the development of software, including malware. In this case the experts are known several cases of cyber espionage carried out by means of the language.
“With the use of this language has been developed malicious software Babar, also known under the name EvilBunny. In addition, the worldwide fame gained malware Flame, in the development process is also used language LUA “, – he said at the Center for computer Emergency response in government FSB Alexei Novikov.
This is a sensational project Flame, the main purpose of which was precisely cyber espionage. About it became known in 2012 when it was revealed this malware infection about 600 computers located in different parts of the world. Most are in the Middle East – Iran, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Sudan, as well as in the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia. The publication The Washington Post then reported that the spy virus was created jointly by the US and Israeli experts to obtain information that could be useful in thwarting “the Iranian nuclear program.” In the style of writing, the names of files, parameters use a cyber attack on the Russian computers institutions, according to the FSB, just similar to the Flame virus.
Now there are dozens of different groups in the world who specialize in spying. Relate some of them with a particular intelligence agency is not technically possible.
This week in St. Petersburg held an international meeting of heads of special services, in which representatives from more than 60 countries participated. The FSB director Alexander Bortnikov said that one of the main problems is that the hackers the opportunity to actively used by terrorists.
“The terms of their goals is wide enough. First of all, it is the establishment of links with hacker structures and use their capabilities for organizing massive . cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and the energy sector, communications centers, life support systems This targeted intervention may lead to emergencies and man-made disasters, “- commented the director of the FSB, the chairman of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee of Russia Alexander Bortnikov
<. p> this week sounded several unsubstantiated accusations by Washington in the Russian involvement in the hacking servers of the Democratic party. However, given the information provided today, the FSB, Russia itself is the subject of a cyber attack, and is not acting as an aggressor
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