http://news.techworld.com/security/3533895/hacker-group-targets-video-game-companies-to-steal-source-code/
By Lucian Constantin
Techworld.com
31 July 2014
A group of attackers with links to the Chinese hacking underground has
been targeting companies from the entertainment and video game industries
for years with the goal of stealing source code.
The stolen intellectual property is used to "crack" games so they can be
used for free, to create game cheating tools or to develop competing
products, security researchers from Dell SecureWorks said in an analysis
of the group's activities.
Dell SecureWorks tracks the hacker group as Threat Group-3279 (TG-3279)
and believes it has been active since at least 2009.
Information gathered by the company's researchers while investigating
compromises at affected firms suggests that the attack group uses a
variety of tools for reconnaissance and persistent access on systems, some
of which were developed by members of the group. These tools include an
extensible remote access Trojan (RAT) program called Conpee and a rootkit
called Etso for hiding network and file activity.
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