Marketers of these companies have been pin pointing locations these groups are originating from, warning users of these ‘advanced persistent threat’ groups (APTs). The groups have majorly been tracked back to Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.
Cyber Defenders Under Attack
Russia’s most popular cyber company Kaspersky were made to investigate its own employees when several staff members’ mobile phones begin distributing their information to some shady parts of the internet.
“Obviously our minds turned straight to spyware but we were pretty sceptical at first[…]Everyone’s heard about powerful cyber tools which can turn mobile phones into spying devices but I thought of this as a kind of urban legend that happens to someone else, somewhere else,” said chief security researcher Igor Kuznetsov.
Igor came to the conclusion that his intuition had been correct and that they had in fact discovered a sizable sophisticated surveillance-hacking effort against their own team after painstakingly analyzing “several dozen” infected iPhones. Apparently, the attackers had found a way to infect iPhones by simply sending an iMessage, that after installing malware to devices, deleted its
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