Russian hackers and Britney Spears in one story. Are you OK, Reg?

The malware scum behind the ongoing Turla campaign have been spotted experimenting with Instagram accounts as a C&C channel. The Russian-sourced (and allegedly state-backed) Turla espionage tool has repeatedly re-emerged since its discovery in 2014. ESET has turned up a Firefox extension that implements a simple backdoor on …

[Doctor Evil]

Spearsphishing

From the ESET report, the affected Firefox extension is something called HTML5 Encoding 0.3.7. Hopefully it's not in your list of extensions ...

[checks own list ... aw crap!]

[deadlockvictim]

Hit me baby one more time?

Title says it all really.

[Adam 1]

Re: Hit me baby one more time?

> Turla espionage tool has repeatedly re-emerged since its discovery in 2014.

So if I'm understanding this correctly, they did it again?

[DailyLlama]

Re: Hit me baby one more time?

Oops!

[B0rg]

Wow that malware seems pretty Toxic.

What? I can make crap jokes too; that's my prerogative!

[Destroy All Monsters]

Neologism proposal: "Ruskers"

"Russian Hackers here, Russian Hackers there, subverting Britney Spears, poisoning muh democratic atmosphere"

RUSKERS shall be the neologism for "Russian Hackers", which for some reson have replaced Greys as eyeball-pulling headlineware. It's short, it's pity, it's to the point. You know you want it.

After that:

CHINKERS, NORKERS and ... uh ... ISRAKERS?

[hi_robb]

Oops

They did it again, they're not that innocent.

/taxi for one please

[Anonymous Coward]

There is a silver lining...

Presumably any outbreak of this malware could be stopped simply by taking down Britney's Instagram account?

Ob. quote of appropriate song title: Til It's Gone

[Jay 2]

What's the Britney angle?

Obviously a few Britney fans lurking in the El Reg comments. Maybe a change to the Paris icon is required?

[Anonymous Coward]

Meth head

why is there a pic of a meth head that says Britney next to it. Britney looks much better than that.