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Uroburos rootkit, is it part of Russian Cyber weapon programme?

Researchers at German G Data published an interesting analysis for Uroborun rootkit alleged to be a component of Russian cyber weapons programme. Uroburos is considered an advanced rootkit that is active since as far back as 2011. It is used to infect networks belonging to high-level targets, stealing data after setting up rogue P2P networks, it targets both 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows systems. It checks for the presence of the USB stick-loving Agent.btz worm, a worm that successfully infected US military networks in 2008.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/22700/malware/uroburos-rootkit-part-russian-cyberweapon-programme.html

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