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  • Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski

    Olympic hackers may be attacking chemical warfare prevention labs

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    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    06.19.2018

    The team behind the 2018 Winter Olympics hack is still active, according to security researchers -- in fact, it's switching to more serious targets. Kaspersky has discovered that the group, nicknamed Olympic Destroyer, has been launching email phishing attacks against biochemical warfare prevention labs in Europe and Ukraine as well as financial organizations in Russia. The methodology is extremely familiar, including the same rogue macros embedded in decoy documents as well as extensive efforts to avoid typical detection methods.