Epic Turla
Active
 
Backdoor
2014
 
Windows
2012
 
101-500
TOP TARGETED COUNTRIES:
Top 10: France, Russia, Belarus, Romania, USA, Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Poland. 45 countries in total.
  • Social engineering
  • Exploits
  • Watering hole attacks
  • Cyberespionage
  • Data theft
  • Epic Turla is able to upgrade itself to Turla\Uroboros malware
  • Among other targets: Ministry of interior (EU country), Ministry of trade and commerce (EU country), Ministry of foreign/external affairs (Asian country, EU country)
  • Government entities
  • Intelligence agencies
  • Diplomatic organizations/embassies
  • Military
  • Academia/Research
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Language artifacts in the malware code of malware suggest Russian speaking authors
The blog post and research paper are available at Securelist.com