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Sykipot attacks U.S PKI infrastructures based on smart cards

Chinese hackers have deployed trojan that is aiming the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department and potentially a other U.S. government agencies. The trojan is targeting smart card readers produced by the company ActivIdentity that provides authentication software. The attacks originate have been originated by Chinese servers and for sure they have targeted the defense sector to steal sensible information. The attack has been conceived to exploit the identity management processes used in governative environments for the physical and logical access management.”]

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/1656/cyber-crime/sykipot-attacks-u-s-pki-infrastructures-based-on-smart-cards.html

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