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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 …

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  1. 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!]

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  2. deadlockvictim

    Hit me baby one more time?

    Title says it all really.

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    1. Adam 1
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      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?

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      1. DailyLlama
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        Re: Hit me baby one more time?

        Oops!

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  3. B0rg
    Coat

    Wow that malware seems pretty Toxic.

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

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  4. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Alert

    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?

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  5. hi_robb

    Oops

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

    /taxi for one please

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    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

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  7. Jay 2
    Paris Hilton

    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?

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  8. Anonymous Coward
    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.

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