Two observations about the Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign | Homeland Security Degrees

Two observations about the Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign | Homeland Security Degrees

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Let’s try to analyze some facts about the Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign. Prof. Corrado Aaron Visaggio helped us in this difficult task.



The Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign raised to me two simple questions:



(i) Are the criminals geniuses or dummies?



(ii) How can an old, known, easy-to-detect malware infect so many machines belonging to different perimeters for so long time, but only in Italy?



This cyber-espionage appears as a naive mixture of sophisticated and amateur techniques. The choice of the spyware (amateur) is the first strange thing: EyePyramid is an old and known malware.



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