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. The malicious code was dubbed SessionManager, and used by a crew labeled GELSEMIUM.
The reach and influence of Gupta's crew is immense, Reuters claimed. Since 2013, the team has been linked to 35 legal cases in which one side allegedly hired the snoops to steal documents from the other. It's also a problem unlikely to go away, said Cognition Intelligence's managing director Anthony Upward."It is an open secret that there are some private investigators who use Indian hacker groups to target opposition in litigation battles," Upward told Reuters.Relating directly to the above, Google released a report this week on how it's working to counter some of the very same cyber-mercenaries Reuters tied to Gupta.
In the UAE, we're told, contract hackers have mostly targeted government officials as well as educational and political organizations in the Middle East and North Africa, including the Palestinian political party Fatah, the largest faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.