Pawn Storm cyberespionage group increases activity, targets NATO

Even though its activities were exposed last year, a cyberespionage group dubbed Pawn Storm has ramped up its efforts over the past few months, targeting NATO members and potentially the White House.

The first quarter of this year “has seen a great deal of activity from the group,” researchers from antivirus firm Trend Micro said Thursday in a blog post. “Most notably this involved setting up dozens of exploit URLs and a dozen new command-and-control (C&C) servers targeting NATO members and governments in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.”

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