During an attack used a combination of sophisticated malware "old school" virus writers and new advanced technologies for vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader - and all this in order to get the data from the geopolitical nature of the organizations.
Malicious program MiniDuke spread by a recently discovered exploit for Adobe Reader (CVE-in 2013-6040). According to a study conducted by Kaspersky Lab in cooperation with the Hungarian company CrySys Lab, among victims kibershpionskoy MiniDuke programs were state institutions of Ukraine, Belgium, Portugal, Romania, the Czech Republic and Ireland. In addition, the actions of cyber criminals suffered Research Institute, two scientific issledovatelskiyh center and medical facility in the United States, as well as research fund in Hungary.
