Software company
Symantec has been tracking the group for the last two years and found them to
be behind six major online attacks.
The group employs
sophisticated hacking techniques in campaigns which are meticulously
researched, at times targeting hundreds of different organisation at the same
time.
More than half of
Hidden Lynx's targets are based in America according to the report, with
organisations in Taiwan, Germany, Russia and China itself also being attacked.
Financial
institutions such as investment banks and asset managers are most commonly
hacked, while "all levels of government from local to national level"
have been targeted.
"This group
is most likely a professional hacker-for-hire operation that are contracted by
clients to provide information," Symantec wrote in a blog about the cyber
group.
"They steal
on demand, whatever their clients are interested in, hence the wide variety and
range of targets."
Hidden Lynx shows
the "tenacity and patience of an intelligent hunter" and has the
"hunger and drive" to become one of the most notorious groups operating
today.
Unlike other
prominent hackers like Anonymous or LulzSec, who appear to be motivated more by
a desire to cause mischief than gain commercially, Hidden Lynx is a
professional outfit.
They are believed
to act like online bounty hunters, being paid large amounts of money by clients
looking to gain an advantage in commercial deals or geopolitics.
Source: Telegraph
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