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Espionage Hacking Grows, with More from East Europe: Verizon Study

April 23, 2014

Espionage Hacking Grows, with More from East Europe: Verizon Study

Reuters, By Joseph Menn

Hacking for espionage purposes is sharply increasing, with groups or national governments from Eastern Europe playing a growing role, according to one of the most comprehensive annual studies of computer intrusions.

Spying intrusions traced back to any country in 2013 were blamed on residents of China and other East Asian nations 49 percent of the time, but Eastern European countries, especially Russian-speaking nations, were the suspected launching site for 21 percent of breaches, Verizon Communications Inc's said in its annual Data Breach Investigations Report.

Those were by far the most active areas detected in the sampling, which drew more than half of its data from victims in the United States. About 25 percent of spying incidents could not be attributed to attackers from any country, according to the authors of the report.

Espionage Hacking Grows, with More from East Europe: Verizon Study

Espionage Hacking Grows, with More from East Europe: Verizon Study
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