A recent Forbes article has alleged the Indian government for abusing private technology against China and Pakistan.
Earlier this year, researchers at Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky witnessed a cyberespionage campaign targeting Microsoft Windows PCs at government and telecom entities in China and Pakistan, the Forbes article read.
The software used by the digital spies was named Bitter APT, meaning an unknown government agency. The code looked the same as previously seen by a company with ‘Moses’ as its cryptonym.
According to the aforementioned Russian firm, Moses provided a hacking technology known as a “zero-day exploit broker”. Such companies operate in a niche market within the $130 billion overall cybersecurity industry, creating software—an “exploit”—that can hack into computers via unpatched vulnerabilities known as “zero days” (the term coming from the fact that developers have “zero days” to fix the problem before it’s publicly known), the article read.
This allows the culprits to find loopholes in the operating systems or apps to break into them. A similar instance such software was recently used was the infamous attack on SolarWinds in 2020, a $2.5 billion company that provided system management tools for network and infrastructure monitoring to customers like Microsoft, Cisco, and the US government.
Forbes revealed that Moses is an American company named Exodus Intelligence, and Bitter APT, the attacker, is its customer India, or the Indian government.
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