Gyges, the mixing of commercial malware with cyber weapon code

July 22, 2014

Experts at Sentinel Labs security firm have discovered Gyges malware in the wild in March 2014, the malicious code appears very sophisticated to the researches which attributed it to a state-sponsored project. The level of complexity of Gyges is very high, the experts have found similarities with malware used by the Russian Government as cyber weapon, but the concerning aspect of the story is that the malware is targeting commercial sector.