A widely reported Russian cyber spying campaign against diplomatic targets has been using two previously unknown flaws in software to penetrate target machines.
According to FireEye, the espionage effort took advantage of holes in Microsoft Windows and Adobe Flash. The campaign has been tied by other firms to a serious breach at US State Department computers and FireEye said that the same hackers – APT28 – are also believed to have broken into White House machines containing unclassified but sensitive information such as the president’s travel schedule.
It also said the group had “probably” stolen online credentials of a military correspondent at an unnamed major U.S. newspaper.Putin speech World War Two veterans 70th anniversary KremlinSergei Ilnitsky/ReutersRussia’s
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