Dark Reading: Newly Discovered 'Master' Cyber Espionage Group Trumps Stuxnet

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The so-called Equation Group epitomizes the goal of persistence in cyber spying--reprogramming hard drives and hacking other targets such as air-gapped computers--and points to possible US connection.

2/16/2015
By Kelly Jackson Higgins

KASPERSKY SECURITY ANALYST SUMMIT -- Cancun, Mexico -- Move over Stuxnet, Flame, and Regin: a newly uncovered cyber espionage operation that predates and rivals Stuxnet has been underway since at least 2001, armed with advanced tools and techniques that include hacking air-gapped computers and a first -- silently reprogramming victims' hard drives, such that malware can't be detected or erased.

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