The design makes it highly suited for persistent, long-term mass surveillance operations against targets. Regin uses a modular approach allowing it to load features that exactly fit the target, enabling customized spying. 2 Known attacks and originator of malware.Īccording to Die Welt, security experts at Microsoft gave it the name "Regin" in 2011, after the cunning Norse dwarf Regin.
Regin has been compared to Stuxnet and is thought to have been developed by "well-resourced teams of developers", possibly a Western government, as a targeted multi-purpose data collection tool. Kaspersky has said the malware's main victims are private individuals, small businesses and telecom companies. ) Among computers infected worldwide by Regin, 28 percent were in Russia, 24 percent in Saudi Arabia, 9 percent each in Mexico and Ireland, and 5 percent in each of India, Afghanistan, Iran, Belgium, Austria, and Pakistan. (The name Regin is first found on the VirusTotal website on 9 March 2011. Kaspersky Lab says it first became aware of Regin in spring 2012, but some of the earliest samples date from 2003. The Intercept provided samples of Regin for download, including malware discovered at a Belgian telecommunications provider, Belgacom. The malware targets specific users of Microsoft Windows-based computers and has been linked to the US intelligence-gathering agency NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ. It was first publicly revealed by Kaspersky Lab, Symantec, and The Intercept in November 2014. Regin (also known as Prax or QWERTY) is a sophisticated malware and hacking toolkit used by United States' National Security Agency (NSA) and its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
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