Russia has been a prime suspect in recent cyberattacks launched against U.S. government targets. However, Russia has been poked with the other end of the hacker stick. For more than two months, hacker attacks originating in China have bedeviled Russia’s military and telecom sectors, researchers at Proofpoint revealed last week. “We also observed attacks on Russian-speaking financial analysts working at global financial firms and covering telecom corporations in Russia,” wrote Thoufique Haq and Aleksy F, authors of the report.
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What Goes Around Comes Around: Russia Gets Hacked
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. September 23, 2015 05:00 AMRussia has been a prime suspect in recent cyberattacks launched against U.S. government targets. However, Russia has been poked with the other end of the hacker stick. For more than two months, hacker attacks originating in China have bedeviled Russia’s military and telecom sectors, researchers at Proofpoint revealed last week. “We also observed attacks on Russian-speaking financial analysts working at global financial firms and covering telecom corporations in Russia,” wrote Thoufique Haq and Aleksy F, authors of the report.