New "Sanny" Cyber-Espionage Attack Targets Russia

CowboyRobot writes "A new targeted attack campaign with apparent Korean ties has been stealing email and Facebook credentials and other user-profile information from Russian telecommunications, IT, and space research organizations. The attackers are grabbing email user accounts and passwords from Outlook, as well as information about the victims' email server."

Stealing Facebook Credentials?

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All your facebooks are belong to us....

Re:Stealing Facebook Credentials?

[Black Parrot]

All your facebooks are belong to us....

In post-Soviet Russia, ... ah, screw it.

I can almost imagine

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WWIII starting over a hacked Outlook account.

Which Korea did this?

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the BEST KOREA!

It couldn't have been South Korea, because they only use IE6 activeX controls for everything.

Re:

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In South Korea only old people use IE6 Active X controls... Sorry, I could not resist the urge.

Echolong report

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From the Conclusions on the Echolong investitigation of the European Parliament [europa.eu]:

29. Urges the Commission and Member States to devise appropriate measures to promote, develop and manufacture European encryption technology and software and above all to support projects aimed at developing user-friendly open-source encryption software; 30. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote software projects whose source text is made public (open-source software), as this is the only way of guaranteeing that no backdoors are built into programmes; 31. Calls on the Commission to lay down a standard for the level of security of e-mail software packages, placing those packages whose source code has not been made public in the ‘least reliable’ category;

If only Russian officials had listened.