Yesterday Der Spiegel magazine broke
the story
about targeted attacks against the German ministry
of the interior.
As is typical in cases
like this, the malware was sent to key employees
via e-mail as booby-trapped DOC and PPT files, and
the stolen data was sent out to unknown location
via servers located in China.
We
highlighted the risk of attacks like this in our
video lecture
last March. The video was recorded pretty much
exactly at the time when these attacks were taking
place.
We are aware of at least two
other similar attacks against governments in
Europe.