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Cyber espionage gang Poseidon poses as Windows experts

February 16, 2016

Via: InfoWorld

Imagine this scenario: Men in dressed in sharp-looking suits show up and claim to know details of your business and the kinds of security problems your organization has. They are Windows networking experts and want to fix those issues that made a breach possible.

Except those suits aren’t being helpful. Instead, they are likely from the Poseidon Group, a Brazilian cyber crime outfit that stealthily attacks organizations, steals information, and then manipulates the victims into hiring them to secure the network, said Kaspersky Lab researchers Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Santiago Pontiroli, and Dmitry Bestuzhev at the Kaspersy Lab Security Analyst Summit.

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