Waterbug Threat Group Targeted Systems in Over 100 Countries: Symantec

  • 27 January 2015
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By Eduard Kovacs on January 27, 2015
 
Symantec has published a new whitepaper detailing the activities of a threat group dubbed by the security firm “Waterbug.”
Waterbug is the attack group previously known for cyber espionage campaigns leveraging toolkits such as Turla (also known as Snake or Uroburos) and Epic Turla (also known as Wipbot or Tavdig).
The group is believed to be active since at least 2005. Its activities became known back in 2008 when one of the pieces of malware associated with it, the notorious Agent.BTZ, was used in an attack aimed at the United States military.
 
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