By Eduard Kovacs on June 10, 2016
Researchers are fairly confident that the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas is behind the cyber espionage group known as Gaza Hackers Team, Gaza Cybergang and Molerats.
The threat actor, believed to be active since at least 2012, has been monitored by several security firms, including Kaspersky Lab, FireEye, PwC and ClearSky. The group’s campaigns have focused on countries in the Middle East, such as Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Iraq, but attacks have also been observed against entities in the United States and Europe.
A report published by ClearSky in January detailed DustySky (aka NeD Worm), a multi-stage malware that the group had been using since May 2015. In its report, the security firm noted that the attackers seemed to be located in Gaza.
At the time, ClearSky said it had found information that led them to the online accounts of a software engineer based in Gaza, but they did not reveal his identity. In a follow-up report on DustySky published on Thursday, researchers disclosed the individual’s identity and provided additional information on the group’s activities.
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The sooner moronic people like that are taken out of the equation the better...hacking for pecuniary gain is one thing and bad enough but when it is for political or even religious reasons then it really needs to be dealt with.
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