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New MATA cyber espionage operation strikes Eastern European companies in oil & gas and defense sectors.

iTWire Friday, 30 April 2021 09:47 More than 70 firms received CIA malware samples in 2019: Kaspersky sec chief Featured Pixabay The head of security firm Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team, Costin Raiu, says in 2019 more than 70 security companies were given samples of malware that was created by the CIA. He did not say anything about who had handed out this malware. His statement came in response to a taunt from the former owner of security firm Immunity, Dave Aitel, who asked him in a tweet "Hey @craiu who are the other anti-virus companies that the FSB/...

The newly-discovered malware is believed to have been deployed by the CIA as early as 2014 and is capable of executing commands against its infected host.

By Catalin Cimpanu . April 28, 2021 Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said today it discovered new malware that appears to have been developed by the US Central Intelligence Agency. Kaspersky said it discovered the malware in “a collection of malware samples” that its analysts and other security firms received in February 2019. While an initial analysis did not find any shared code with any previously-known malware samples, Kaspersky has recently re-analyzed the files and said it found that “the samples have intersections of coding patterns, style ...