I like how they call it a "nation-state sponsored cyber-espionage toolkit", and then go on to refer to its unknown creators.
Kaspersky Lab Discovers 'Gauss'
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#12Oh ho - and suddenly Standard Chartered is fingered for transactions with Iran!
Yuk Yuk Yuk - I wonder what is going on with this then!
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#13What now.. a heavily cybermilitarized nationstate so broke it needs to skim its own citizens' bank accounts? Advanced Persistent Phish? Trying to remember the last time I didn't read about some ultra-dooper-al-quaeda-cyber-virus. Seems any kid with a C compiler these days pumping out cutpasted code qualifies as a complex threat. Coming up: 50 page white paper on the seemingly "innocuous" font (translation: obviously…
What now.. a heavily cybermilitarized nationstate so broke it needs to skim its own citizens' bank accounts?
Well, at least we have a shortlist then. UK, Iceland, Greece, Spain...
Advanced Persistent Phish? - Is that some kind of really annoying halibut, armed with lasers?
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#14From the article: "... the installation of a special font called Palida Narrow, and the purpose of this action is still unknown." Would this perhaps be a tracking ability, as described at https://panopticlick.eff.org (specifically, the list of "System Fonts") It would require the users to visit a site that is collecting this tracking information, but it isn't impossible to imagine a popular site among the target audi…
Also, you could make it the default font for documents, meaning you could trace their origins, perhaps.
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#15What now.. a heavily cybermilitarized nationstate so broke it needs to skim its own citizens' bank accounts? Advanced Persistent Phish? Trying to remember the last time I didn't read about some ultra-dooper-al-quaeda-cyber-virus. Seems any kid with a C compiler these days pumping out cutpasted code qualifies as a complex threat. Coming up: 50 page white paper on the seemingly "innocuous" font (translation: obviously…
This virus could be used to track the flow of money in terror networks. It could also be used offensively to surprise-defund them, or to grab off-the-books cash for your own nation's agents in the field.
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#16What now.. a heavily cybermilitarized nationstate so broke it needs to skim its own citizens' bank accounts? Advanced Persistent Phish? Trying to remember the last time I didn't read about some ultra-dooper-al-quaeda-cyber-virus. Seems any kid with a C compiler these days pumping out cutpasted code qualifies as a complex threat. Coming up: 50 page white paper on the seemingly "innocuous" font (translation: obviously…
This virus could be used to track the flow of money in terror networks. It could also be used offensively to surprise-defund them, or to grab off-the-books cash for your own nation's agents in the field.
Applying Occam's razor we're left with a teenage drop out who has found a way to sell bank account details on the black market, to fund his new car.
But of course not, obviously it's Al Quaeda. How else will the security industry succeed in strangling more cash and evil, preferential, freedom-damaging policies from central government?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
This virus could be used to track the flow of money in terror networks. It could also be used offensively to surprise-defund them, or to grab off-the-books cash for your own nation's agents in the field.
Applying Occam's razor we're left with a teenage drop out who has found a way to sell bank account details on the black market, to fund his new car. But of course not, obviously it's Al Quaeda. How else will the security industry succeed in strangling more cash and evil, preferential, freedom-damaging policies from central government?
Absolutely no one is even suggesting it's Al Quaeda. Did you read the article at all? It points to the US and/or Israel above all else...
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Applying Occam's razor we're left with a teenage drop out who has found a way to sell bank account details on the black market, to fund his new car. But of course not, obviously it's Al Quaeda. How else will the security industry succeed in strangling more cash and evil, preferential, freedom-damaging policies from central government?
Absolutely no one is even suggesting it's Al Quaeda. Did you read the article at all? It points to the US and/or Israel above all else...
Unless I missed something, the central government referred to is not located in the middle east.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely no one is even suggesting it's Al Quaeda. Did you read the article at all? It points to the US and/or Israel above all else...
Unless I missed something, the central government referred to is not located in the middle east.
You missed something. forgotusername strongly seems to be suggesting that security experts are falsely claiming this is from Al Qaeda so they can get money from the US government to fight the terrorists. That's what daeken was responding to.
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#20Reading their analysis of Gauss, it appears 0xACDC is used for XOR encryption when communicating with the C&C servers. Didn't we just read about another security company and AC/DC...? http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=4286696