Russian hackers have been mooching off existing OilRig infrastructure - CyberScoop

Russian hackers have been mooching off existing OilRig infrastructure - CyberScoop: Russian-linked hackers known as the Turla group have been piggybacking on Iranian hackers’ tools and infrastructure for years now to run their own attacks, according to a joint announcement Monday from the National Security Agency and the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre. A two-year long investigation revealed that the Turla group, which has been linked to Russian intelligence, scanned for the presence of Iranian-built backdoors, then used them to try gaining a foothold in victim networks in at least 35 countries, largely in the Middle East, according to the NSA. This announcement again demonstrates how hackers will use other attackers’ techniques, creating the false impression that one espionage group is behind an operation when, in fact, it’s another. “Turla acquired access to Iranian tools and the ability to identify and exploit them to further their own aims,” the NCSC’s Director of Operations, Paul Chichester, said in a statement. Turla would run its own cyber-espionage operations using …

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