Hackers focus energy on solar sector
Researchers at security management company AlienVault are tracking highly skilled espionage group that is targeting two US manufacturers of solar panels.
The hacker group, thought to be from China, is targeting design documents using complex and well-obfuscated rootkit-like malware.
"It's installing on the kernel level," he said, adding that it was custom built for the attacks and doesn't contain configuration data of the command-and-control server with which it communicates. "If it's not targeting a wide range of industries, it's much, much more difficult to generate signatures," he said.
