Der Spiegel reports that Germanys federal prosecutors are targeting unknowns for espionage activities The news was revealed by the German newspaper Der Spiegel, the same that issued the report on alleged US snooping on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone in June. This time, the attackers targeted the personal laptop of a department chief in the chancellery that has been infected by the powerful Regin spyware. The Regin Trojan was discovered on the laptop last year and it has been used by threat actors to exfiltrate sensitive data from the targeted computer.”]
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