Spy program targeting organizations in China and Russia

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Security researchers said e-mails from the company Symantec specialized us, that a group calling itself "Stryder" or "project runway Sauron, electronic espionage attacks on selected targets in Russia, China, Sweden and Belgium and Rwanda.
The company published on her blog that the group-active since October 2011-hidden malicious program developed and used is called "rmsk".

The researchers said that "the rmsk" grown in a certain organization network instead of downloading to computers individually, giving the attacker full control over the infected machines, and allow monitoring keyboard and steal files and other information, Callao reported Reuters.

Security company stated that the goals of Stryder include 4 organizations and individuals in Russia, airlines in China, an organization in Sweden, Embassy in Belgium.

In turn, the company announced "Kaspersky Lab" electronic network security research, discovered the headquarters programme, called project Sauron, they knew about 30 wounded headquarters programme networks in Russia and Iran, Rwanda, and possibly additional victims in Italian-speaking countries.

She noted that the goals of "rmsk" include governmental and scientific research centres, military entities, telecommunications companies and financial institutions.