From: GovInfoSecurity
By Mathew J. Schwartz
The “wiper” malware attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment has numerous commonalities with previous wiper attacks in Saudi Arabia and South Korea, anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab reports.
While that’s no smoking gun proving that the same group is behind all three attacks, “it is extraordinary that such unusual and focused acts of large-scale cyber destruction are being carried out with clearly recognizable similarities,” says Kurt Baumgartner, a Kaspersky Lab principal researcher, in a blog post.
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