According to the security firm, a group of cyberspies has leveraged a vulnerability in Windows systems to access the NATO , Ukrainian government, a government European , energy companies ( Poland confirmed) & Telecommunications European and an American educational organization .
The cybersecurity company reported today on its website that it has detected that the group of cyber espionage “ Sandworm “has used this” hole “Windows Security.
iSight Partners said no details of the information the Pirates have been able to steal, but that the nature of the vulnerability found all attacked entities could be “damaged to some extent.”
“Many of the observed baits are related to the conflict in Ukraine and Russia and other geopolitical issues related to Russia “Cybersecurity held firm.
” Sandworm “, a group that believes iSight Partners active since 2009, used the Windows vulnerability and techniques of” phishing “and malicious files to access the information.
If exploited this vulnerability affects computers from Windows 8.1 to Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 and 2012, a hacker can execute code on a computer remotely.
iSight Partners says “ on Tuesday, October 14, 2014, iSIGHT Partners – in close collaboration with Microsoft – announced the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server 2008 and 2012 Microsoft has patched this vulnerability in the October 14, 2014 patch release -. CVE-2014-4114 “
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