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January 16, 2013 03:48 am GMT

China or Russia Could Be Behind This Global Online Espionage Operation


Russia or China could be behind one of the largest and most complex cyber espionage campaigns ever revealed, according to cybersecurity experts contacted by Mashable. The operation, codenamed Red October, was uncovered yesterday by the Russian online security giant Kaspersky Lab.

Unfortunately the evidence can't clearly show who is behind the attacks. All the experts, including the Kaspersky researchers, warn that caution is due. "If you don't see clear evidence," said Markus Jakobsson, cybersecurity expert and CTO of FatSkunk, a Silicon Valley anti-mobile malware company, "what you can do is base it on a hunch and look at who's targeted."

The malware targeted mostly government networ…
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