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Simda’s Hide and Seek: Grown-up Games

Securelist (Kaspersky Lab), April 13, 2015. The technical outcome of the 9 April 2015 Simda takedown - 14 command-and-control servers seized in the Netherlands, USA, Luxembourg, Poland and Russia, sinkholed server logs showing 190 affected countries - and the design characteristics of Simda used to argue it left little for a successor to inherit..

Source type
Cybersecurity report
Published
April 13, 2015
Research grade
T2
Used in entries
1

Bibliographic record

Publisher
Securelist (Kaspersky Lab)
Published
April 13, 2015
Source type
Cybersecurity report
Research grade
Source grade T2
Language
English
Official record
Not an official publication
Address
https://securelist.com/simdas-hide-and-seek-grown-up-games/69580/
What it supports
The technical outcome of the 9 April 2015 Simda takedown - 14 command-and-control servers seized in the Netherlands, USA, Luxembourg, Poland and Russia, sinkholed server logs showing 190 affected countries - and the design characteristics of Simda used to argue it left little for a successor to inherit.
Dataset id
src_securelist_simda_2015

Research notes

  • By Vitaly Kamluk. Page byline block reads 'Incidents 13 Apr 2015'; JSON-LD datePublished 2015-04-13T04:30:04+00:00.
  • Kaspersky Lab was a participant in the takedown but this post is vendor threat research rather than an official partner release, hence T2.

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