By John Leyden, 26 Aug 2014
Software being offered to patriotic Russians as a way to attack Western governments, especially the US, is actually loaded with malware that attacks supporters' computers, security researchers warn.
Hackers have crafted ingenious spam messages that help them deliver the Trojan to those who support the Russian cause and are opposed to economic sanctions taken against their country over the conflict in the Ukraine. Users who click the malicious links are unwillingly joining a botnet, Romanian security firm BitDefender warns.
According to Bitdefender’s Russian-speaking antispam researchers, the malicious messages state: “We, a group of hackers from the Russian Federation, are worried about the unreasonable sanctions that Western states imposed against our country. We have coded our answer and below you will find the link to our program. Run the application on your computer, and it will secretly begin to attack government agencies of the states that have adopted those sanctions.”
The Register/ full article here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/26/russian_hacktivist_tool_trojan/
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