Symantec says Tortoiseshell crew ransacked suppliers
Miscreants are hacking into Saudi Arabian IT providers in an attempt to compromise their real targets: said providers' customers, according to Symantec.
The security software giant said this week its attack investigation team has observed the cyber-gang, dubbed Tortoiseshell, infiltrating the networks of off-premises cloud businesses and tech suppliers in the hope of gaining access to their users, and siphon off data, spy, and do other mischief
Symantec said the hacking crew, active from at least July of last year through July of this year, compromised hundreds of computers within 11 service providers, and exploited this high level of access to menace its actual targets.
"This is an unusually large number of computers to be compromised in a targeted attack," Symantec said in a stands intermediate targets providers pwned snoops eyeing customers report
