A cyber snooping operation reminiscent of the Stuxnet worm and billed as the world’s most sophisticated computer malware is targeting Russian and Saudi Arabian telecoms companies.
Cyber security company Symantec said that the malware, called Regin, is probably run by a western intelligence agency and in some respects is more advanced than Stuxnet, which was developed by the US and Israel in 2010 to target Iran’s nuclear programme.
The discovery of the latest hacking software comes as the head of Kaspersky Labs, the Russian company that helped uncover Stuxnet, told the Financial Times that criminals were now hacking industrial control systems for