Russian Uroburos Malware Devours American Files

The Ouroboros of classical antiquity was a serpent locked in a perpetual cycle devouring its own tail. Taking a page out of the old wyrm's book, the Uroburos malware seeks to engulf whole networks, possibly as part of a Russian espionage plot against the United States. Although Uroburos seems to have been around since 2011, researchers at the German security firm G Data discovered it only recently.

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