Shady RAT Hacking Claims Overblown, Security Firms Say

Two security companies are questioning claims that a cyber espionage campaign uncovered by a rival firm was sophisticated or even extraordinary.

Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab on Thursday begged to differ, saying that McAfee has simply not provided enough information to justify the claims being bandied about.

The report contains nothing on what particular data has been stolen or how many computers in each organization were hit by the attacks, said Alex Gostev, Kaspersky’s chief security expert, in an emailed statement. Until the information in the McAfee report is backed up by evidence, to talk about the biggest cyber attack in history is premature — via redwolf.newsvine.com