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Sophisticated, successful Morpho APT group is after corporate data

  • July 8, 2015
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Posted on 08 July 2015. Two reports published on Wednesday by Symantec and Kaspersky Lab detail the recent attacks executed by an unusual APT group they have dubbed Morpho and Wild Neutron.

The group was first spotted in 2013, when they successfully compromised Twitter, Apple , Facebook and Microsoft by using the watering hole technique and a Java zero-day exploit to deliver an OS X backdoor to the companies' developers.

Since then, the group has hit 49 large corporations in over 20 countries. Full Article

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By  Stephen McBride Published  July 9, 2015  A sophisticated cyber group that concentrates on stealing intellectual property from large enterprises has compromised "a string of major corporations" in recent years, including three organisations "located or headquartered" in the UAE, cyber-security company Symantec claimed today.  full article