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Stories about: cyber-espionage

Majority of People Consider Cyber-Espionage Acceptable A survey conducted by Sophos, which tried to determine how people view state-sponsored cyber-espionage has revealed alarmant attitudes regarding the practice. Over sixty of respondents considered that using malware and hacking to spy on other countries is acceptable.Spying efforts allegedly conducted by hackers hired... 3 August 2010 16:18 GMT Global Cyber-Spying Attack Uncovered Researchers from a security company have uncovered that a variant of the Zeus trojan has actively been used to siphon sensitive information from 2,500 organizations during the past two years. Dubbed the "Kneber botnet," the network of compromised computers spanning almost 200 countries is being controlled from server... 18 February 2010 10:09 GMT Large Oil Companies Fall Victim to Cyber-Espionage The Christian Science Monitor reports that in the last half of 2008, several oil companies fell victim to highly sophisticated malware attacks, aimed at stealing valuable oil exploration data. The incidents bear a striking resemblance to the attacks that targeted Google, Adobe and a series of other companies.The alle... 27 January 2010 10:41 GMT