CVE-2009-3129

Executive Summary Over the past seven months, Unit 42 has been investigating a series of attacks we attribute to a group we have code named “Scarlet Mimic.” The attacks began over four years ago and their targeting pattern suggests that this adversary’s primary mission is to gather information about minority rights activists. We do not

The recently discovered cyber espionage campaign “Red October” has shocked world wide security community, the principal questions raised are: Who is behind the attacks? How is possible that for so long time the campaign went undetected? Which is the role of AV company in these operations? To try to understand who is behind the attacks […]

On Monday, Kaspersky Lab uncovered details of a complex cyber espionage campaign dubbed ‘Operation Red October’ that has been targeting specific groups throughout the world for over five years.

Last October Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis Team started a new investigation after several attacks hit computer networks of various international diplomatic service agencies. The attacks appeared very suspect, a new large scale cyber-espionage operation has been discovered, the operation is dubbed «Red October», a name inspired by famous novel «The Hunt For The Red […]

Cyber security researchers have turned up evidence of a sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign that has been targeting political and business groups throughout the world for more than five years.