The internationally renowned Vienna hacker Peter Kleissner will have uncovered a global spying campaign from Russia, said to have been affected by the next few conglomerates and the local Bank Austria. "They used a Trojan and stolen data," said Kleissner to APA.
What, only those affected could find. Bank Austria is kalmiert. Only one computer was infected with a malware that was discovered and removed from the in-house IT immediately. Subsequent analysis revealed that there was no spyware on the computer. "Also, no data could be stolen and there was no access to customer or other sensitive data possible," said bank spokesman Martin Halama. Of an espionage campaign so could be no question. Unlike portrays the Kleissner.
Or of the activists had spied from December 2012 to July 2013 from Moscow several large corporations, in addition to the Bank Austria were as General Electric, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Xerox, Ford and Mercedes have been affected. "It may be, that have been paid by someone." It is noticeable next to the long period that several so-called high-profile companies emerge. "When you look at a single attack, you only see this, not the bigger picture," he told 22-year-old. "But there were several botnets, ie groups of infected computers." the goal of hackers is to probably get to data. "The are selling well." Whether the great effort was to assume "that the person has not made fun and laughter," but that professionals put behind it.
How Kleissner or its 4-person firm Kleissner & Associates has come the activists on the ropes? "A domain company (based in the Seychelles, note) has helped us to enlightenment." Initially, the hackers will have a VPN connection - a kind of secure data tunnel - but worked, then you had once made a mistake. "They have used their real IP address." And this is just one Moscow. Kleissner has therefore not be appealed to the authorities.
Especially in Russia hackers usually not much passing, as long as they do not foresee it to domestic firms. 've started all this because he wanted the Bank Austria as a customer. His company did namely developed a program with which you can determine who is infected with the Trojan, who is threatened. Into business but it is not come. Kleissner already made a 18-year-old talked about when he said "Black Hat" at the computer security conference in Las Vegas - some refer to this as a hacker conference - a promising program presented. "So you could be on an encrypted disk draufspielen a Trojan without knowing the password," said Kleissner.
The students immediately got an internship offer from Microsoft. going back to Austria, he was his job at Icarus. Kleissner had worked alongside the school in the Austrian anti-virus specialist. The appearance in Las Vegas was his employer but too much. Icarus Kleissner sued because he allegedly part of a source code unlawfully used. It has even launched a criminal case, which also houses the Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky has connected. The prosecution Wiener Neustadt determined partly because abuse of access, access to computer data and attempted extortion. "In December 2012, I was acquitted," said Kleissner.
There were no further complaints pending against him. Kleissner now operates from Prague. He founded there in February 2013 together with two other Austrians an "IT-Security-Star-up," as he calls it. The fourth member, a Portuguese, from Ireland to work. It was "good business", have already generated a turnover of 120,000 euros. Already 2009 by Kleissner launched a one-man company Insecurity INSEC system based in Wiener Neudorf was cleared in October 2011 from the Companies Register.
Kleissner as hackers, a graduate of the HTL Mödling would, incidentally, does not call itself. He sees himself as a programmer. In the scene we are divided: some celebrate Kleissner as a star, others accuse him to make his knowledge available to criminals. He had always denied. Not but that he is "Black Hat" on the way back from the Las Vegas, the computer system at Zurich Airport paralyzed to expose security vulnerabilities.
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