Espionage malware infects governments and indrustries around the world

Kaspersky Lab has discovered a years-long cyber-espionage operation that victimized hundreds of high-profile targets in 40 countries. The malware, known as NetTraveler, was used for covert computer surveillance and appears to have originated in China.

"Based on collected intelligence, we estimate the group size to about 50 individuals, most of which speak Chinese natively and have working knowledge of the English language," the researchers wrote. "NetTraveler is designed to steal sensitive data as well as log keystrokes, and retrieve file system listings and various Office of PDF documents."

The campaign initially targets its victims using tailored spear-phishing emails infected with malicious Microsoft Office attachments. The malicious attachments target the CVE-2012-0158 and CVE-2010-3333 vulnerabilities. Both the vulnerabilities have been patched by Microsoft. Kaspersky Lab recommended all network administrators check their systems and ensure the patches are installed.

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