Scare Force: Pakistan military hit by Operation Shaheen malware

The Pakistan Air Force is the apparent target of a complex new state-sponsored attack campaign. Security house Cylance said this week a state-sponsored group – dubbed the White Company by researchers – has been looking to get into the networks of the Pakistani military in a long-term targeted attack campaign known as Operation …

[Mayday]

Oh dear

"Operation Shaheen had at first sent out phishing emails with links to compromised websites, then later switched to emails with infected Word documents attached."

University Diplomas, large African bequests and willy enlargements must be too good to resist.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Oh dear

You forgot that Pakistan tops the world in Google searches for shemale photos. Must have sent the Pakistani military a lot of those.

Pakistan hates gays but love ‘shemale sex’ and ‘man f***ing man’ porn searches

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Oh dear

You are not very bright if you think those are actually authentic.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Oh dear

When compiling the list of possible suspects they ended up with over half the worlds countries, did they stop to think maybe they need to improve relations with some folk?

[cream wobbly]

Re: Oh dear

Huh. Interesting. When it's Blighty, or the Yanks, or them upsidedown cobbers, when a list of "possible suspects" for cyberwarfare attacks are characterized as "naughty colonialist types" and it's the attackers' faults. When it's Pakistan with a massive list of suspects, it's their own fault?

Says more about you than it does them, mate.

[GrumpyKiwi]

Outsourced...

Clearly they'd outsourced their IT anti-virus/firewall support to Mumbai.

[sanmigueelbeer]

Re: Outsourced...

Clearly they'd outsourced their IT anti-virus/firewall support to Mumbai.

Think worst. Outsourced to IBM. In Mumbai.

[Halfmad]

Re: Outsourced...

Same staff who use to do BT Broadband support.. you know? Indian Terry.

[Anonymous Coward]

A nuclear risk, certainly

But hardly as dangerous as having Donald J Trump in charge of the big red button.

[sanmigueelbeer]

Re: A nuclear risk, certainly

the big red button

According to Stormy it's a "mushroom".

Oh wait ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: A nuclear risk, certainly

According to Stormy it's a "mushroom".

I think that could be clouding the issue

[[e-mail]]

Re: A nuclear risk, certainly

He's been "in charge of the big red button" for some time now and has managed to resist the urge to press it.

[FrozenShamrock]

Re: A nuclear risk, certainly

That's because he is waiting for them to implement a twitter activated button so he's able to understand and finally use it. I hear they are having problems getting it to recognize alternative spellings that change with time.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: A nuclear risk, certainly

Those damned democrats in the public service have gone a hidden it on him. Each time he hits the big red button it just opens the doors.

[Paul Herber]

Belgium, man.

'Operating in part behind the facade of a Belgian locksmith business'

It's Tintin, Snowy and Captain Haddock.

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: Belgium, man.

Only Poirot knows for sure!

[Stevie]

Re: Belgium, man.

Naughty man. Have an e-beer.

[Destroy All Monsters]

Re: Belgium, man.

Could also be that Fakir guy who makes people mad as hatters with poison darts.

[phuzz]

"an obvious target of all the nation states with well-developed cyber programs (i.e. the Five Eyes, China, Russia, Iran, DPRK, Israel), [...]They also draw attention from emerging cyber powers like India and the Gulf nations."

Given that India are right next door, and the probable target of most/all of Pakistan's nukes (and vice versa of course), surely that would put them near the top of the suspects pile?