Turla (malware)

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Turla or Uroboros is a Trojan package that is suspected by computer security researchers and Western intelligence officers to be the product of a Russian government agency of the same name.^[1][2][3]

Malware[]

Turla has been targeting governments and militaries since at least 2008.^[2][4][5]

In December 2014 there was evidence of it targeting operating systems running Linux.^[6]

Group[]

The advanced persistent threat hacking group has also been named Turla.^[1] Dan Goodin in Ars Technica described Turla as "Russian spies".^[7] Turla has since been given other names such as Snake, Krypton, and Venomous Bear.

See also[]

• Agent.BTZ
• Red October (malware)

References[]

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