Armenia becomes one of the victims of "Red October" cyber campaign?

Yerevan/Mediamax/. “Kaspersky Lab” published a report on investigation of a large-scale “Red October” campaign held by cyber criminals for spying diplomatic, governmental an scientific organizations in various countries of the world.

The report reads that the main objective of the attackers was to gather intelligence from the compromised organizations, which included computer systems, personal mobile devices and network equipment. The cyber attackers mostly focused on the republics of former USSR, Eastern European countries and a number of states in Central Asia.

Based on the data provided with the help of Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), the company worked out a list of the countries most affected by Backdoor.Win32.Sputnik.

According to the list, 10 infections were detected in Armenia, 15 - in Azerbaijan and 38 - in Russia.

"As of now, we don't have any facts indicating direct participation of any state in the attack. The information stolen by the attackers was obviously extremely confidential and involves various geopolitical data in particular which may be used on a state level. Such information may be put to sales on the "black market" and sold to anyone who will offer a higher price", the report reads.