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14 of October, 11:21

Russian hackers attack computers NATO and the EU
Russian hackers attack computers NATO and the EU through a bug in Windows. Experts of the firm iSight, discovered attack, believe that it is associated with the crisis in Ukraine was approved by the Russian authorities. Russian hackers have used a bug in the Microsoft Windows operating system to gain access to computers NATO, European Union, Ukraine and some energy and telecommunications organizations, confirmed by the data of the firm iSight Partners, specializing in Cyberathlete. The company does not know what data have been found by hackers, but assumes that they were looking for information about the crisis in Ukraine, as well as documents related to " diplomatic, energy and telecommunications issues." According to the iSight, hackers started their " campaign " 5 years ago. The company called this group of hackers " Team a sand worm ", as found references to sci-Fi TV series " dune " in the code used by cyberspire. ISight believes that the story is exactly about Russian hackers as on an unprotected server, used by them, have been found files in Russian. In addition, Authorized organizations drew attention to the specific nature of the goals that interested cyberspies.

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