State-Sponsored Spying May Be Teaching Cyber-Criminals New Tricks

As we’ve seen countless times before, and will certainly see again, it’s impossible to keep this kind of thing under control in the long term.

On Thursday, researchers at antivirus company Kaspersky announced their own discovery:

Gauss is a complex, nation-state sponsored cyber-espionage toolkit designed to steal sensitive data, with a specific focus on browser passwords, online banking account credentials, cookies, and specific configurations of infected machines.

They found Gauss thanks to its similarity with Flame, a piece of government-backed spyware discovered in May this year and described as

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