Kaspersky Uncovers New APT “Mercenary” Group

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Security researchers at Kaspersky have uncovered a new cyber-mercenary group that they claim has been providing hacking services for hire for almost a decade.

Dubbed “Deceptikons,” the APT group isn’t particularly sophisticated from a technical perspective and isn’t known to have deployed any zero-day threats during that time, the Russian AV vendor said in a Q2 round-up report.

“The Deceptikons infrastructure and malware set is clever, rather than technically advanced. It is also highly persistent and in many ways reminds us of WildNeutron,” the firm said.

Kaspersky Uncovers New APT “Mercenary” Group

Deceptikons has been operating for nearly a decade

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