Hackers May Have Stolen Emails Obama

Hackers would have received last year in an attack on an unclassified system from the White House to access e-mails of US President Barack Obama. That allow government officials across the New York Times to know. The classified systems of the White House, including the servers that Obama used to communicate via his BlackBerry, would not be cracked.

Knew the attackers to gain access to an email archive of people inside the White House, with whom Obama communicates regularly. From these accounts, reports were taken by the US president had sent and received, according to the officials who were familiar with the investigation into the burglary.

How many emails were captured would not tell them, and the sensitivity of the content. The email account of Obama himself would not have been hacked. According to the New York Times, the severity of the break for months are known to officials.Who exactly is behind the attack is unknown, but the US government looks at Russia.

Kaspersky Would Have Hesitation About Revealing Cyber Attacks

The Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab would have hesitation about revealing two cyber attacks attributed to the Russian regime, as were sources within the company across Reuters have announced.According to founder Eugene Kaspersky, the company never asked by government to refrain from investigating a cyber attack.

The researchers would not be guided by the political interests of a country. Yet, say several current and former employees of the company Kaspersky Lab about publishing at least two alleged cyber attacks has hesitated. Kaspersky Lab as published last year under paying customers a report on a sophisticated espionage campaign that had discovered it.

The report, however, was only five months later publicly disclosed once had a British defense company about the espionage campaign published . According to the British BAE Systems were likely to be a campaign of the Russian government, which mainly computers in the Ukraine were infected. Eugene Kaspersky, however, denied that political motives played a role. "We were late," as he announced. According to the virus fighter is not possible to win everything.

Discussion

In 2013, Kaspersky Lab researchers discovered another espionage campaign called Red October , by Russian-speaking programmers would be created and focused on governmental and diplomatic organizations in Europe, Central Asia and North America. Only after a heated internal debate virus fighter still decided to publish a report on the operation. According to several current and former employees of Kaspersky Lab, who wished to remain anonymous, it was probably an operation of a Russian military intelligence.

Update

Kaspersky Lab said in a statement that the company has never doubted about publishing studies because of political reasons. "We have no political ties," said the virus fighter, who noted further with various countries and international investigative agencies to work together. In case an attack campaign is discovered the anti-virus company follows a special procedure whereby the investigative services are warned in the countries concerned, as well as partners and customers before the investigation appears.

FBI Put $ 3 Million Head Of Cybercriminal

The FBI has offered a reward of $ 3 million put at the head of an unknown Russian cybercriminal who is considered the mastermind behind the Crypto Locker ransomware and the Game Over Zeus botnet. Last year there was a large-scale international operation against the botnet and ransomware place where the Russian was indicted by the US authorities.

Game Over Zeus malware that the man would have developed is a Trojan horse that is based on the infamous Zeus Trojan and was mainly used to steal data for online banking and other services. The malware that infected hundreds of thousands of computers over the years, would have caused more than $ 100 million in damage.

Game Over Zeus botnet was next to steal credentials used for spreading the Crypto Locker ransomware. This ransomware encrypted files on computers and gave users not access it if they ransom paid, which could amount to hundreds of dollars.Estimated Crypto Locker would have until April 2014 hostage together 234,000 computers. The FBI estimates that in the first two months that Crypto Locker active victims were paid a total of $ 24 million.

Nine months later, the Russian cyber criminals still on the run. According to the FBI maintains the man in Russia, but it may be that he travels abroad. To convict him is now $ 3 million awarded for the golden tip that leads to an arrest and / or conviction.