Hacker Group The Dukes will have cyber spying for Russia for seven years.
is the Finnish security company F-Secure, which on Thursday will present a major report to show that the Russian government must have given the hacker group The Dukes cleared to make hacker attacks against both states and organizations in Europe, USA and Asia.
According to F-Secure will Dukes have had access to a large set of programs used to infiltrate the IT network and steal information that the group then harboring on their own computers and servers.
The group should have spying for the Russian government for seven years, according to F-Secure.
– By identifying not only the type of malware used, but also the type of information the group seeking in his attacks, can see clear evidence that the actions are sanctioned by the Russian government, says Antturi Lehtiö, researcher at F-Secure in a press statement.
The Dukes must for example spying on Georgian Information Center on NATO, the foreign ministries of Turkey and Uganda.
Other immediate goals will have been the think tanks in the United States, Europe and Central Asia.
– Smaller countries such as Sweden and Finland are particularly vulnerable to the This type of espionage. The Nordic and Baltic countries have always balancing between Russian and Western European interests, and Russia use their cyber attacks to tip the balance in their favor. To identify who is behind cyber attacks is notoriously difficult, which means that Russia has always denied his involvement, saying Antturi Lehtiö.
Fact: The Dukes
• Hacker Group has taken its name after the name of the attack program that it created.
• A number of variants of Trojans and other forms of malware have names like Mini Duke, Pinch Duke and Gemini Duke.
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