By: Kelly Jackson Higgins Posted on 8/18/2014
A look at Operation Arachnophobia, a suspected cyber espionage campaign against India.
A recently unearthed targeted attack campaign suggests that Pakistan is evolving from hacktivism to cyber espionage.
Operation Arachnophobia, a campaign that appears to have begun in early 2013, has all the earmarks of classic advanced persistent threat/cyber espionage activity but with a few twists of its own -- including the possible involvement of a Pakistani security firm.
Researchers from FireEye and ThreatConnect recently teamed up in their investigation of the attacks, which feature a custom malware family dubbed Bitterbug that serves as the backdoor for siphoning stolen information. Though the researchers say they have not identified the specific victim organizations, they have spotte
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