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The Epic snake: Turla cyber-espionage campaign
The Epic Snake: Turla Cyber-Espionage Campaign. Turla, also known as Snake or Uroburos is one of the most sophisticated ongoing cyber-espionage campaigns. When the first research on Turla/Snake/Uroburos was published, it didn’t answer one major question: how do victims get infected?
Turla, also known as Snake or Uroburos is one of the most sophisticated ongoing cyber-espionage campaigns. When the first research on Turla/Snake/Uroburos was published, it didn’t answer one major question: how do victims get infected?
The latest Kaspersky Lab research on this operation reveals that Epic is the initial stage of the Turla victim infection mechanism.
Turla big picture:
- Epic Turla / Tavdig: The early-stage infection mechanism.
- Cobra Carbon system/ Pfinet (+others): Intermediary upgrades and communication plugins.
- Snake / Uroburos: High-grade malware platform that includes a rootkit and virtual file systems.
Below are the The Epic Turla Operations: distribution of the top 20 affected countries by Victims IP
The “Epic” project has been used since at least 2012, with the highest volume of activity observed in January-February 2014. Most recently, Kaspersky Lab detected this attack against one of its users on August 5, 2014.
Targets of “Epic” belong to the following categories: government entities (Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Trade and Commerce, Ministry of Foreign/External affairs, intelligence agencies), embassies, military, research and education organizations and pharmaceutical companies.
