'Nitro' hackers use stock malware to steal chemical, defense secrets
Attackers used an off-the-shelf Trojan horse to sniff out secrets from nearly 50 companies, many of them in the chemical and defense industries, Symantec researchers said today. The attack campaign — which Symantec tagged as “Nitro” — started no later than last July and continued until mid-September, targeting an unknown number of companies and infecting at least 48 firms with the “Poison Ivy” remote-access Trojan (RAT).
