AlienSpy RAT strikes over 400,000 victims worldwide

  • 8 February 2016
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Otherwise known as Adwind, the malware-as-a-service platform is still actively attacking both individuals and businesses.
 By Charlie Osborne for Zero Day | February 8, 2016
 
 TENERIFE, SPAIN: The notorious AlienSpy RAT has launched attacks against at least 400,000 corporate and private targets in the financial, government, education and engineering sectors worldwide, researchers have warned.

On Monday, Kaspersky researchers Vitaly Kamluk and Aleks Gostev from the firm's Global Research team told attendees at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit in Tenerife, Spain that Adwind is actively pursuing targets internationally in the quest for information and surveillance data.
 
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Good article and stats on this thread
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Posted on 11.02.2016 At the end of 2015, Kaspersky Lab researchers became aware of an unusual malware program that had been discovered during an attempted targeted attack against a bank in Singapore. A malicious JAR file was attached to a spear-phishing email received by a targeted employee at the bank. The malware's rich capabilities, including its ability to run on multiple platforms as well as the fact that it was not detected by any antivirus solution, immediately captured the attention of the researchers. Full Article
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This appears to be a very sophisticated exploit and care is needed by
banks to avoid malicious attacks

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