Cybersecurity

Some Malware Victims in Turkey Have No Idea They’ve Been Targeted

A resourceful group that used Turkish-made trojans, among other malware, appears to have targeted several victims in Turkey, according to computer forensics company Arsenal Consulting. Among those hit were likely several high-profile officials, given the cost of the operation: some of the malware was custom-made and the infrastructure was robust.

“Even against a single target, we found the attackers using multiple email addresses, multiple remote access trojans, multiple command and control servers, multiple cellular services,” digital forensics expert Mark Spencer at Arsenal Consulting told me. “The infrastructure was obviously built and leveraged in a way to avoid single points of failure.”