A new hacking group has been rampaging the Internet in a persistent campaign that spreads a self propagating and never before seen backdoor—and curiously a data wiper that targets Iranian machines. The group, tracked under the name TeamPCP, first gained visibility in December, when researchers from security firm Flare observed it unleashing a worm that targeted cloud hosted platforms that werent properly secured. The objective was to build a distributed proxy and scanning infrastructure and...
