More News on GhostNet and the Shadow Network

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Submitted by Mortimer.CA on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @09:56AM

Mortimer.CA writes "Last year a giant electronic spying operation was discovered; it was dubbed GhostNet. Now, after a further year's worth of research, a new report has been released by Infowar Monitor (a collaboration between U of T's Citizen Lab, the SecDev Group, and the Shadowserver Foundation. The report, called Shadows in the Cloud: An investigation into cyber espionage 2.0 (Scribbed PDF), documents a complex ecosystem of cyber espionage that systematically targeted and compromised computer systems in India, the Offices of the Dalai Lama, the United Nations, and several other countries. While the servers are in China, the report's authors say that there is "no evidence in this report of the involvement of the People's Republic of China or any other government in the shadow network." Furthermore, the "intruders even stole documents related to the travel of NATO forces in Afghanistan, illustrating that even though the Indian government was the primary target of the attacks, one gap in computer security can leave many nations exposed.""
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