Hackers russos apoiados pela inteligência vão ao site da embaixada da Armênia com novo código

Hackers russos apoiados pela inteligência vão ao site da embaixada da Armênia com novo código: Computer code used by hackers tied to Russia’s FSB intelligence agency has haunted governments around the world for years. The hackers’ tools have been associated with a damaging breach of U.S. military networks in the mid-to-late 1990s, and used in a cunning hijacking of Iranian infrastructure more than two decades later. Now, malware analysts have surfaced a new piece of code that they say the Russian hacking group, dubbed Turla, is using to spy on government and think tank websites in the Eurasian country of Armenia. The Turla operatives set up malicious web infrastructure known as a “watering hole” in an apparent attempt to surveil Armenian government officials last year. “It is likely that the Turla operators already know who they want to target and may even know the ranges of IP addresses they generally use” before carrying out an operation, said Matthieu Faou, malware researcher at ESET, the antivirus firm that discovered the campaign. ESET knows …

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