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U.S. government asks firms to check networks after ‘Energetic Bear’ attacks

03
Jul
2014

The U.S. government has asked critical infrastructure operators to review computer networks to see if they are infected with malicious software from the “Energetic Bear” hacking group, which private researchers say is tied to the Russian government. The Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, or ICS-CERT, issued the request after researchers with F-Secure of Finland and Symantec Corp of the United States reported that they believed Energetic Bear was behind a campaign to infect energy and industrial firms around the world with malicious software known as the Havex Trojan.

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