Cybersecurity

New Russian Hacker Exploit ‘Most Significant Cyber-Espionage Threat’ To US, NATO Partners

The Russian hacker group Pawn Storm is using a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to install malware on computers belonging to several “foreign ministries,” Trend Micro researchers reported Tuesday.

Pawn Storm “is the most significant cyber-espionage threat to the U.S. government and her NATO partners,” Trend Micro’s chief cybersecurity officer, Tom Kellermann, said in an email to The Daily Caller News Foundation. The exploit contains similarities to that which occurred on the White House just months ago, researchers found. That particular score allegedly resulted in a trove of Obama’s “unclassified” emails. (RELATED: Pentagon Computers Were Hacked Again)