Hacker group targets video game companies to steal source code

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3533895/hacker-group-targets-video-game-companies-to-steal-source-code/

By Lucian Constantin
Techworld.com
31 July 2014

A group of attackers with links to the Chinese hacking underground has 
been targeting companies from the entertainment and video game industries 
for years with the goal of stealing source code.

The stolen intellectual property is used to "crack" games so they can be 
used for free, to create game cheating tools or to develop competing 
products, security researchers from Dell SecureWorks said in an analysis 
of the group's activities.

Dell SecureWorks tracks the hacker group as Threat Group-3279 (TG-3279) 
and believes it has been active since at least 2009.

Information gathered by the company's researchers while investigating 
compromises at affected firms suggests that the attack group uses a 
variety of tools for reconnaissance and persistent access on systems, some 
of which were developed by members of the group. These tools include an 
extensible remote access Trojan (RAT) program called Conpee and a rootkit 
called Etso for hiding network and file activity.

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