Dubbed Drovorub by the agencies; the malware hacking tool is capable of stealing data and spying on Linux systems.
State hackers have been for long used as a tool by governments to fight other states secretly. While every country has these, there are some like Russia that has a very strong lead in this front which naturally makes its enemies concerned.
Keeping this in mind, just a day ago, both the FBI and NSA have issued a joint alert on Drovorub – a malware they believe to have been developed by the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) to hack Linux based systems.
The group in question is alleged to be APT28 which is also known as
FancyBear, known for using the leaked NSA hacking tools to spy on hotel guests.
Strontium, known for targeting Republicans and conservative officials in the US.
Sednit, known for infecting websites with malware while one of its targets including EFF’s website.
Pawn Storm, accused of hacking live transmission of French TV5Monde and defacing it with ISIS’s logo.
Sofacy, known for running (now seized) VPNFilter botnet domain that infected 500,000 routers.
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